What were the major social effects of the market revolution?
The major social effects of the market revolution was that Americans were able to communicate from a distance and travel long distances. They were able to communicate from a distance by using the telegraph and communicate using Morse code which is just a bunch of complicated beeps. Americans and other races were able to travel long distances by using their newly found technology, steamboats for the journeys across bodies of water and trains, for journeys across large bodies of land.
How did ideas of American freedom change in this period?
Well women were deprived of their full rights. Women were seen as quiet and nice people who had to stay home and take care of the kids and of the house while the men went off to work. The man was basically the owner of the woman. He had to manage all of her wages if she had a job. Women didn’t feel free and so they wanted to be independent with the same rights as men.
What revolutionary changes did American slavery undergo in this period?
Enslaved blacks and even free blacks were discriminated in every way just because of their color. Free blacks would always get harassed by the white people and their would even be mobs going to their neighborhoods just to harass them. The blacks were excluded from the new economic oppurtunities.
What role did immigration play in the market revolution?
Immigration waves were “infesting” American land and the Americans didn’t like it. To the native-born Americans, the immigrants were just taking up space and making the United States look bad by their addiction to liquor. They were also taking all the jobs for the whites. So the Americans were pissed and they rebelled and protested to limit the number of immigrants coming to America. So immigration didn’t go good in the market revolution.
The Second Great Awakening both took advantage of the market revolution and criticized its excesses. Explain this statement.
The ministers of the Second Great Awakening took advantage of the oppurtunities of the market revolution and they started spreading the word. They started raising funds for themselves. It was a contradiction though because the revivalists “railed against greed and indifference to the welfare of others as sins.” But the revivals still thrived in areas caught up in the rapid expansion of the market economy.
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