How do this week's readings shape your understanding of early Americans' expectations versus their lived experiences?

Read, Think, and Write:

· American Yawp, chapter 8 and chapter 9

Maps

· Slave Population, 1790

· Slave population, 1860

Primary Sources

· East View of Lowell, 1839

· Statement of the Stock of Cotton in Great Britain,  Hunts Merchant Magazine and Commercial Review, vol.6, no. 1, p. 292

· Statistics of Lowell Manufactures, January 1, 1835,  Printed Ephemera Collection, Library of Congress

· Statistics of Lowell Manufactures, January 1, 1857,  Printed Ephemera Collection, Library of Congress

· Account of Sales and Import of Liverpool Cotton,  1841-1842, Franklin Elmore Papers, Library of Congress

· The Tide of Emgiration ot the United States and to the British Colonies,"  The Illustrated London Times,  6 July 1850

· Petition of Citizens of Rutherford County to the Tennessee General Assembly , c. 1825

· Excerpts from state laws governing the franchise , 1777-1844

· " I was a Cabinet-Maker by Trade ," A Working Man’s Recollections of America, 1825-3

· " They must work harder than ever ," A Working Man Remembers Life in New York City, 1830

· " The Natural Tie between Master and Apprentice has been Rent Asunder ," 7 Oct. 182

· " Factories are talked about as schools of vice ," Elias Nason Considers Careers

Once you have read this week's chapter in American Yawp and the primary sources listed in the links above, consider again the question from your first writing assignment on expectations and outcomes. How do this week's readings shape your understanding of early Americans' expecations versus their lived experiences? Do this week's readings support your earlier argument? Do they make you rethink it? Revise your big argument as necessary (again, underline your thesis statement) and add to your essay from your earlier writing assignments using at least 3 of the primary sources from this week as support. 

As you analyze this week's sources and textbook chapter, consider the following:

· How did the invention of the cotton gin and expansion of cotton production shape the US economy?

· The "Age of Jackson" is often presented as America's golden age of democracy, when states bestowed on the common man rights and privileges that had previously been reserved for elite property owners.  How is this depiction of America supported and/or challenged in the readings for this week? 

This essay should be 2-page paper, MLA format.