HIST 190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Northwest Territory, Spinning Jenny, Samuel Slater
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The 13 states on 1784 had grown to 24. Americans in the first half of the nineteenth century were fond of describing liberty as the defining quality of their new nation, the unique genius of its institutions. Likenesses of the goddess of liberty, a familiar figure in 18th century british visual imagery, became even more common in the us, appearing in paintings and sculpture and on folk art from weather vanes to quilts and tavern signs. In the first half of the nineteenth century, an economic transformation known to historians as the market revolution swept over the united states. Its catalyst was a series of innovations in transportation and communication. By the eighteenth, many colonists had been drawn into britain"s commercial empire. Consumer goods like sugar and tea, and market-oriented tactics like the boycott of british goods, had been central to the political battles leading up to independence.
