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Impact of Market Revolution

Page history last edited by Mr. Hengsterman 7 years, 4 months ago

 

 

Optimism, Anxiety and Despair - Impact of the Market Revolution 

As the workplace becomes less personal, bigger, and uncontrollable.  It leads to the accumulation of great wealth,
with fortunes being made in the textile industry and in the railroad industry by the 1840’s and 1850’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Market Revolution also leads to a lot of natural environmental degradation. People got to be--got worried about rivers, they really did. There's now an environmental history being written of the impact of the Market Revolution.

 

In any society changing this much, this fast, doubling its own population--doubling--in twenty-five years.  Any era of great change, great ferment, usually causes reform, anxiety, people who get worried, want to change things.

 

 

 

 

 

21:43 "On the North bank of the Ohio"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States from France in 1831.  He traveled throughout the country studying the American people and their institutions, their economy, and their ways of living.  In 1832 de Tocqueville arrived in New Orleans.  On this trip he was interested in finding out about some of the differences between the North and South.  He was especially interested in observing slavery and gave his views about its effects upon Americans and their nation.  He also wrote about the rapid expansion of the United States.

 

 

Impact of the Market Revolution and the Issue of Slavery 

 

 

 

 

SUMMARY OF FILMAmistad is an historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the true story of an uprising in 1839 by newly captured African slaves that took place aboard the ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba, the subsequent voyage to the Northeastern United States, and the legal battle that followed their capture by a United States revenue cutter.

 

It shows how, even though the case was won at the federal district court level, it was appealed by President Martin Van Buren to the Supreme Court, and how former President John Quincy Adams took part in the proceedings

 

 


 

 

President Martin Van Buren is in the middle of his re-election campaign and only reluctantly deals with the case of the Amistad slaves when he realizes that the decision about their fate will influence his political future.

 

South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun is a racist who strongly influences Van Buren.

 

John Quincy Adams is the frail ex-President who eventually speaks on behalf of the Africans before the Supreme Court but is mostly seen tending flowers in his conservatory.

 

 

 

 

 Why did the John C. Calhoun character suddenly come to dinner at the White House? What message was he trying to convey?  

Even in 1839 the strained relations that eventually caused the Civil War were beginning to show. (Actually, they were evident during the Constitutional Convention.) Sensing that freedom for the Amistad Africans would show a fundamental flaw in the various defenses of slavery, the Calhoun character wanted to make the point that the South would object if the Amistad Africans were freed. 

 

 

 

 

 

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The South and the Peculiar Institution and In Defense of Slavery
 

 

 

 

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