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Major players in the market revolution who singlehandedly increased the production of cotton inadvertently increasing the slave trade. Known as the Chattel Blonde Boys.

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Taxes and involvement
http://projects.leadr.msu.edu/youngamerica/exhibits/show/jacksonian-economy/marketization

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The most useful definition of marketization as it pertains to the Young American Republic is the exposure of industries to market forces. In economic terms, this simply means Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand", or market forces exerting the pressures of supply and demand and forcing a market for a given good or service to equilibrium, or the efficient allocation of resources. As governments release their grip over industry, change comes expeditiously. In the infancy of the Republic, it is clear that there were strong testaments towards protectionism or other forms of government control over infant industries and the developing American economy as a whole. However, as the Jeffersonian era begins, it is clear that marketization was connecting areas of the young nation that had been at most marginally economically connected before. Integral in creating and aiding in the development of national markets for essential goods and services was the phenomenon known as the Transportation Revolution. The advent of railroads, steamboats, steam engines, and industrial machinery meant that Americans and their businesses now had access to a national market, in addition to actually having the means of transportation to execute legitimate national trade.

Marketization and the development of the early economy lead to another very important development: driving the development of the middle class. The combination of marketization processes with the burgeoning technological development of the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries meant more economic opportunity for Americans that were not at high levels of businesses or government, and with the number of state chartered banks rising from 206 in 1820 to 702 in 1840, a much broader investment structure existed that could foster economic growth. However, President Jackson's famous bank wars meant the abolition of The Second Bank of the United States in favor of these state chartered operations. The result was often inflation, counterfeit currencies, and bank runs, characterized in this era as "panics". Nevertheless, spearheaded by the older and established artisan classes, skilled laborers began to work their way into a new middle class, culminating in the general removal of property rights as a prerequisite to vote across the Jacksonian Era, most famously in the New York Constitution of 1821.

This interconnection of the nation through markets allowed by transportation and technological improvements meant something broader for Americans. They now peered into the political, economic, and social systems of their neighbors, as what happened in the cotton south could veritably and negatively effect the industry in the northern states, and vice versa. Massive government stimulus programs like the Eerie Canal and private developments like factories, steamboat engines, and railroad systems meant a public citizenry that could now afford to do much more traveling than before, exposing them to the wonders, or the horrors of their fellow states.

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The Market Revolution: Tying a Young Nation Together

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The most useful definition of marketization as it pertains to the Young American Republic is the exposure of industries to market forces. In economic terms, this simply means Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand", or market forces exerting the pressures of supply and demand and forcing a market for a given good or service to equilibrium, or the efficient allocation of resources.

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We sold most of our cotton to the British empire that we didn't use for our own domestic gain. We used Atlantic navigation to get to the British. We were super powerful and cotton was generally only through us, so prices were high because we said so. After the civil war prices dropped because Europeans found cheaper sources.

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Da Transportation But This Time Its Bri'ish

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Da Transportation But This Time Its Bri'ish

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Half of all American exports sent outside the U.S were cotton during this time. Water was super duper important, whether Canals or the Atlantic. 2/3 of the worlds cotton supply came from the South.
New Orleans, Galveston, Texas were both some important ports. Domestic commerce was more important than international commerce during this time. We went from dependent on England to fueling New England..

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Lowell's factory used young women as workers, with a low wage as they received severe abuse. The women had very dangerous and unhealthy working conditions and worked under the times of around 5am-7pm, leading to some 80 hour work weeks.

If you got hurt either figure it out or get replaced because there are 500 people who want your job
Addition of poor immigrants led to even more people wanting these really really just sucky jobs and honestly it seems stupid but if you're broke whatcha gonna do?

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Based off the United Kingdom textile industry. Paid first off of contract per hour and sometimes off product produced instead of hours working.  Created wage labor in which a person sells their labor under contract for a sum of money.
Worked under the times of around 5am-7pm, leading to some 80 hour work weeks. Lowell's factory used young women as workers, with a low wage as they received severe abuse
Deskilling: Have less skill family based specialization, now have many people creating the small parts that all come together. Interchangeable parts led to easier replication, less cost, more effective creation, and easier replacement.

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Eerie canal was the first form of transportation that led to the U.S becoming an economic powerhouse without reliability on Europe.

Railroads were significantly more used due to their flexibility in comparison to canals. Though canals did offer some great advantages they were not used because of the requirement it takes to create one. Federal and private investors spent most of the money in order to create this new architecture.

Cumberland road was the first highway built by the federal government Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first prominent rail road.

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Slaves made a come back during this time because of the introduction of the cotton gin as farmers rapidly moved westward for more and more land. Large plots needed many slaves to fill as much time effectively as possible.
Keep in mind slavery generally grew only in the south as in the midwest.

Natives got pushed back more and more as we expanded westward. Could also coincide with the trail of tears as it took place around the time as well, as well as the tension building up to it.

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Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860

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Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 13.2 "Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1861 by Henry S. Graham." "Sold for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army." "Census Office, Department of the Interior, Washington, Sept. 9th, 1861.

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Made by Eli Whitney, Cotton Gin. Creation of this small tool led to a more efficient farming of cotton as it separated seeds from the cotton. Led to more slave usage which is next. Used on large plantations as we expanded westward with more and more land, coinciding with more and more need for effective farming tools.
John Deere’s steel plow led to quicker creation of farmable land as it was a horse drawn shovel type item that stirred up ground. This was the first of many innovations to the steel plow that revolutionized efficiency of land farming.

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The Black Belt was highly fertile soil around the Alabama region that was great for farming cotton. Farming is hard to find info on but we can assume it was most likely picked by hand since the mechanical reaper was for wheat and not cotton. There isn't much on farming I won't lie.