AMH 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: We Wanna, Online Shopping, Protestantism
1 Mar 2020
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Our real national pastime - (1800-1848) lets make this better. Turner thesis - america is made up of people who go places. If we see it, we wanna mess around with it. We wanna make things better we want to improve. Market revolution - advancements of transportation and communication. This ship has a power on its own, no matter the wind. Connect people and products in ways never seen before. From days to hours (it"ll take 3 days vs 3 hours), pounds to tons. You want as much product in as many people"s hands as possible to make more profit. Industrial revolution - more factories and mass production of products. Not as good, but they"re cheap so like literally why not. Go to the store and buy things, easy. In the old days, you would have 3-4 slaves pick the cotton, and the rest would pull the seeds out of the cotton. This machine does exactly that but faster.
