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Summary: Ramifications From The Market Revolution

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Many social ramifications resulted from the Market Revolution (Schultz, 2013). The growth of cities, the impact on the environment, the changing face of the labor force, an increase in religious divisions, the beginnings of a working class and a middle class, and increased protest movements were six of the most remarkable ramifications. In 1850, 16 percent of Americans lived in towns of 8,000 people or more compared to 1830 when only five percent of American lived in such towns. Rapid deforestation occurred in the Northeast due to steamboats and early railroads using wood as a source of power. Half of the employees in most American factories were immigrants by the 1860s; these immigrants were mostly Irish. The Irish immigrants brought Roman

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