Todays Points

Two interrelated changes transformed US society between the 170s and 1820s:

1. The Market Revolution would integrate ordinary Americans into capitalist social relationships, altering old patterns of work, family, and community.
2. At the same time, Americans established the foundations for democracy by removing old forms of hierarchy & exclusion -- yet also by creating new ones.

The Market Revolution Transforms Rural Life

A. Farm Economies before Market revolution

• Buyers and Sellers aren't connected
• Produce for self-sufficiency
• Before Erie Canal
• Raise many different crops and livestock
• Non cash transactions

The transformation

• Small Scale
• Cash and credit become available
• Potential for profits
• Specialization to products
• Cash Crops become lucrative

B. Farm Families

• Family an neighbors provide the laboring unit

Transformation

• Family & Economy dissociate
• By gender
• Basic economic unit becomes male
• Women enter textile work

Part II - The Market Revolution Transforms Urban Work

A. Artisan Shops

• Specialized goods
• Non-competitive work culture, organized by "crafts" or trades

Part III - Societal Crisis & New Politiks

A. B4 Market Revolution

• Unequal status and participation
• the "few" are best equipped to represent out interests
• Politik based on "what you own"
• Attempts to curb or balance self-interest

B. Politik transform

• Self-interest and competition tolerated
• Distrust of unequal status in deliberation
• Equal political rights for white* male citizens
• Politik based on "who u r"

The jacksonian Democrats (1826)

• The first mass political party (Andrew Jackson)
• distinction between political party and faction is permanence. Political party is more permanent.
• jackson famous for inciting violence with native americans
• Vows to destory Hamiltons bank