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HIST 17B Exam Correct And Answers
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HIST 17B Exam Correct And Answers
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The Market Revolution - Answers Series of economic changes that
took place starting in the early 1800's and lasting to mid-1800's
- Great improvements in transportation, steamboat, building of canals, the
railroad → much more efficient and rapid transportation of goods and ideas
throughout the country. Slaveholders and traders saw the advantage of this
and used these improvements to strengthen the slave market economy.
Refers to a shift in economic activity where more and more farmers and city
men were producing goods for the market rather than for their own
subsistence. Many went from rural self-sustaining → industrial, city,
manufacturing all for market to earn a profit/wage.
- Before the 1800's much of the population lived in rural areas. Majority of
these small rural farmers and their families grew and created goods for
their own families' support, but by around 1840, a large and ever-increasing
margin of people were producing goods for the marketplace. → as this shift
occurred, the lives of many changed in social political and other ways as
well.
Created a violent departure of the previous social norms and it contributed
to the creation of domestic ideology
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Just about everyone in the U.S. was affected by this rise of market
relations. Although majority of the North saw the market revolution as a
positive, many Southerners' detested the changes incited by the revolution.
Some men experienced greater independence due to the market; some of
them lost their economic independence and were forced to find work in
factories, under the dictation of a superior.
- George Fitzhugh, a southern slaveholder exemplifies the Southern
distaste for the growing wage-based economy in the North. In his article
Cannibals All!, he maintains that being a wage worker in the capitalist
system created by the market revolution was to be involved in "wage
slavery", w
Domestic Ideology/Characteristics - Answers Men: competitive,
analytical, ambitious, corruptible, economic and political sphere
Women: caring, sentimental, self-sacrificing, pious, disinterested, home
world sphere
Republicanism - Answers A guiding political philosophy of the U.S.
Stresses liberty, unalienable individual rights as central values → a core
ideology U.S. founded on
"The Cotton Kingdom" - Answers In the 80 years between the
American Revolution and the Civil War, the North and South developed
along distinct and opposing lines economically, politically, and culturally.
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The South took a very different economic course than the North. After the
Revolutionary War, tobacco income plummeted, cotton brought the
stagnant southern economy back to life. While the North became an
industrial and manufacturing powerhouse deeply affected by social reform
movements like abolitionism and women's rights, the South became a
cotton kingdom, founded on slavery, whose inhabitants generally abstained
from or opposed such reformist tendencies.
- Mainly occurred along the black belt which had the best soil for growing
cotton
- Cotton production controlled life in the South
- The gin made mass cotton production in the South feasible and helped to
institutionalize slavery in the region. The Louisiana Purchase and the
annexation of Texas as a slave state helped to expand the Cotton
Kingdom. Politically, cotton became the foundation of southern control of
the Democratic Party.
- The widespread use of the cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793,
made cotton plantations efficient and profitable. The demand for cotton also
grew because of the developing textile industries in the North and in Britain.
Cotton plantations spread across the South, and by 1850, the southern
U.S. grew more than 80 percent of the world's cotton.
The South became a veritable "Cotton Kingdom," remaining rural and
agrarian while the North became industrialized. Rich plantation owners saw
little reason to spend their capital on risky industrial projects when cash
crops brought in a large, steady income.
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The cotton kingdom also brought more people to the South. Getting rich by
growing raising a cotton crop where slaves did all the hard labor was
attractive to ma
"Non-Freeholders" - Answers White men who did NOT own property
- Previously, a white male had to own property in order to have the right to
vote
- After the revolution and with the rise of democracy, there was an end to
the property qualification and this was revolutionary and gave many white
males the right to vote and have representation in the government
- - Many lower class, poorer men who couldn't afford land could now vote
→ sense of pride in being American having liberty and rights → politics
moved to the streets and was discussed by common people
RACE replaced PROPERTY in terms of who had the right to vote
"Manifest Destiny" - Answers Market revolution encouraged
settlement as well as post 1812 expansionary sentiment and Market
Revolution provided transportation and technology for expansion.
Western settlement will help U.S. avoid Malthusian Trap
- All this formats Manifest Destiny; America has a god-given right and study
to settle, accomplished with the help of slavery
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