Aside from the industrial upgrades, there were other effects on American society that came along with the market revolution. It affected the country socially and religiously. By building new roads and canals, the market revolution changed the way people worked and planned out their lives. This altered individuals' lives, ambitions, dreams and goal productivity. Meanwhile the market revolution provided new opportunities and additionally increased freedom, with it, it also created great concern. Even though the traditional markets were limiting, they helped stable communities and subsidized to social stability within the people. There was a rise in immigration as Foner mentions “The idea of United States as a refuge for those seeking economic …show more content…
So, after that there was no more barter economy with others. But a market based economy capitalism was developing. Even though, considering that the changes brought by the market revolution, helped strengthen the United States economy, and everyone followed along and had some plan to achieve, there were still those people who did not want to go along with the shift of the market economy. People like Thomas Jefferson and most of the Southern states. Jefferson always though that strong individuals meant a strong nation. Which part of it is true but that is not what the market revolution was about. It concluded of people working together, through hard labor and communications. He strongly believed that republican democracy would work best in a nation of independent people. Southerners went a bit against the market revolution and its economy. Like the others, farmers specialized in growing a certain crop and make the most of it, they focus on the invention of cotton gin and the beneficial outcome that also helped the expansion of slavery. The south was for slavery, they wanted policies that allowed the expansion of slavery. But the north was just the opposite. There were many issues regarding slavery, for example there was the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and Kansas- Nebraska
Industrialization changed the Northern section of America in unbelievable ways. Americans would gain more jobs in factories, mills and banks, city life was booming, and both woman and men being employed in the cities. Money revenue would be generated and profited in mass production. Transportation became easier with the production of making parts or materials to build roads, steamboats, and railroads. Industrialization would trigger people to become invertors. Inventors seek new ideas of everyday use products to be easier or improve the machines to work faster and longer.
The Revolution had many affected more than just the political and social aspects of American life; it also impacted its economy. After being tied to the British navy for over a century the American trade was on its own. Even though the Revolution disrupted the traditional trading system,
Next, the American Revolution changed the American society economically in many ways such as the Promotion of Agriculture like the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture in 1786 (Doc. F). Then, the Woodcut of Patriot Woman which caused much economic inflation (Doc. A). The American Revolution led to many uprisings of the stocks in the markets.
The Industrial Revolution was of great importance to the economic development of the United States. The new era of mass production kindled in the United States because of technological innovations, a patent system, new forms of factory corporations, a huge supply of natural resources, and foreign investment. The growth of large-scale industry in America had countless positive results, but also negative results as well. Industrialization after the Civil War affected the United States in several ways including poverty, poor labor laws, and the condition of the people.
America has been expanding and growing since its birth out of Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution has been an influence in the American life since it first began in the 1700s. Many of the effects resulting from the revolution still affect America to this day. The entrepreneurs of this time and their industry still are around, although they have molded and shaped themselves into better products their still known from the originality of it all. Although the Industrial Revolution began hundreds of years ago it has affected everything on a global scale with other nations adapting from the innovations of this era. Economically speaking its increased money for the nation tremendously although the nation in debt to other nations to this day;
The Industrial Revolution created an enormous increase in the production of many kinds of goods. Some of this increase in production resulted from the introduction of power-driven machinery and the development of factory organization. This then led to a large influx of people into the cities. Also, as a result of the demands that the British were making the Americans demanded more in their own country.
The Market Revolution in the America was characterized by the development of technology and the desire to maximize profit. To achieve maximum profit, Americans turned to illegal means to acquire cheap labor and land. In the case of the Mexicans, Americans saw the abundance of raw materials in California and Texas and annexed the territories through border dispute. The Mexican landowners were left vulnerable to the American legal structures and lost the title to their lands. Once landowners, the Mexican became the cheap labor for the Americans and some even became the workers on the land they once owned. Taking a hard look at the core of the Market Revolution, one will find that the revolution was rooted in greed.
The North and South both had opposite opinions about slavery, The South favored slavery because of there agricultural based economy which they needed slaves to attend to their harvests and crops, the North was against slavery because they were an industrialized nation they had no need for slavery. This debate went on and almost resulted
The market revolution in the United States brought a sudden change in the manual labor system originating in south and digressed to the north and later spread to the entire world. The integral part of the economic growth in the United States in the nineteenth century was a good thing that brought change in the market. In respect to the change, America took its first major step in creating the world’s most stable and strongest economy, which gave room for growth among the citizens.
The Market Revolution drastically increased industry in the United States. Its emphasis on economic development caused people to limit the rights of others for the sake of expansion and progress. Liberty overall contracts during the Market Revolution since opportunities for economic freedom and personal liberty have been restricted for various groups because the new economic way of thinking amplified disparities that had already existed before the Market Revolution.
During the late 1700’s, the United States was no longer a possession of Britain, instead it was a market for industrial goods and the world’s major source for tobacco, cotton, and other agricultural products. A labor revolution started to occur in the United States throughout the early 1800’s. There was a shift from an agricultural economy to an industrial market system. After the War of 1812, the domestic marketplace changed due to the strong pressure of social and economic forces. Major innovations in transportation allowed the movement of information, people, and merchandise. Textile mills and factories became an important base for jobs, especially for women. There was also widespread economic growth during this time period
During the time of the second great awakening, the United States underwent a extensive flowering of religious sects and unprecedented expansion of church memberships. Many preachers had emphasized sin and damnation, while other preachers emphasized God's love and devotion to save souls from hell. Just as the First Great Awakening had a religious movement in America, the Second Great Awakening followed in the same footsteps. The religious excitement that was the Second Great Awakening created a positive impact in the United States, emphasizing the democratization of American Protestantism as well as removing barriers of race, class, gender, and age. The Second Great Awakening impacted American society and bring more of a religious faith back
The market revolution changed the economic life for all Americans. It took place in the early decade of the 19th century. Historians and writers as Eric Foner writes in his book Give Me Liberty!, one example is when he talks about the market revolution he refers to serious economic changes that took place between 1800s and around 1840s which included many things such as great improvement in transportation, building steamboats, the telegraph and the Erie Canal, which was about 36o miles long canal from the Great Lake to the Hudson River. This upgrade made it a cheaper, easier and faster transportation. By making these great improvements, products were able to be sent to other places to make more profit. Not only profit came out of it, but this gave
The Market Revolution connected all parts of America though trade among transportation, and was made successful by the production of goods to be traded. The market revolution was an economic turning point that greatly benefited the lives of women by expanding their
The power of the Market Revolution The Market Revolution was a period of drastic change in the US, from 1793 to 1909. It changed the life of all Americans. The economy was the center from where political, social and cultural developments started to evolve. Industries grew a lot in the north-east and mass produced goods that were shipped abroad so there was a capital global understanding not just a national one. It lead to the the first kind of globalization in the US.