Chapter 9: The Market Revolution from Give Me Liberty, Questions

1.What were the major social effects of the market revolution?

        The major events social effects in the market revolution were the need of workers so the U.S reactivated the slave trade for a while and more slaves worked at the new constructed markets. Native Americans were kicked out because the US thought that they were an obstacle for American "freedom." Women demanded for more rights but society saw women as house wives and men as workers. After the discoveries of the cotton gin and the steam boat, trading became more essential and easy for the US. Some people feared that market Revolution was decreasing American  freedom ans they looked towards the west for a new start. The north consisted of factories and the south as farming lands. Discrimination grew in the US because of the new  immigrants that arrived to the US, the blacks were always discriminated and not accepted in society. Citizens feared that these people are going to steal their jobs. Ideas such as being independence grew and people began to strike for less working hours and higher wages, people got use to living with a clock.

2.How did the ideas of American freedom change in this period?

       American freedom change in a way that people got use to the idea of working and thought that they had no freedom. Mostly white rich men were the owners of factories and were always on top. The market revolution encouraged Women, Immigrants, and African Americans to speak for their minds. People now wanted to be rich and the idea of working hard to be successful grew, even though the living in a nature place vanished. People became obsessed with being too wealthy and challenge others to be more rich then themselves. In Society being independent meant freedom and economic success was all. Everything was being at being the best and who had the most money.

3.What revolutionary changes did American Slavery undergo in this period?
     Slaves during this time were worked to death and had no rights. With the increase of work or cotton farms, several slaves and their families will work from sun up to sun down. Slaves were always separated from whites and also hated by whites. People usually didn't employed some free blacks because if white buyers would come to the store they wouldn't want to be helped by a black person. Slaves had no voting rights and were looked  down upon in society. However, a few slaves were successful: but most were enslaved. A few towns became to be establish by free slaves because whites hated blacks, so they had a line between them. At the end slavery was still a question, although some free blacks started supports groups and some whites supported them.

4.What role did Immigration play in the market revolution?

        Immigration began when certain people like the Irish were force to move to the US for jobs.  The Irish came because their potato crop died and created thousand of people starving to death. The Irish were not skilled and filled the lower jobs that no one wanted to work; they were thankful to work and eat. The Germans were skilled individuals and got jobs as craftsmen, shoe keepers and  farmers. The German culture created schools and churches. Americans hated them because they told them that they are taking their jobs away, and for all the crimes happening in America. Some immigrants worked in the congress and people thought was unfair, Americans would stereotype them as lazy and other dirty words like they would to slaves.

5.  The Second Great Awakening both took advantage of the market revolution and criticized its excesses.Explain.
            The Second Great Awakening took advantage of the market revolution because when the idea of individualism spread, the religious people when seeking for people that wanted to be independent , they manipulated them by saying that being independent also meant being religious. Several people began to go to church more often because they wanted to seek for help (God) and because they wanted for their sins to be pardoned. Since public schools were being funded by the government, the religious people demanded for religious education.