HIST 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cyrus Mccormick, Public Sphere, Separate Spheres
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What are some of the advantages/disadvantages for them: what are economic and social effects occur due to the market. Corduroy roads- trees cut down and used to line road. Bad standard of living because it was hard to trade. Can get from ny to st. louis in a day instead of 6 weeks. Most railroads were in the new northern cities (illinois, indiana, North is more of a commercial society and south still relies on agriculture. Links different cities to the atlantic ocean. Farmers grow a surplus and become commercial and impersonal (trading outside of their community) Farmers have money and can access other goods. Transportation and manufacturing improvements help cause the market revolution. Productions for external markets, not just local markets. Steal the idea of textile plants from britain and open them in the us. All forms of textile production in one place. Woman became mill girls before they got married or older unmarried women.
