America’s population continued to increase between the American Revolution and the mid-nineteenth century through organic growth, immigration, and slavery leading to the rise of cities and new economies. Firms capitalized on the plentiful labor market. Matthew Carey, a social reformer in the 1830s, said, “[workers] numbers and their wants are so great, and the competition so urgent, that they are wholly at the mercy of their employers.” Free, working people became increasingly dependent upon firms for wages and stability as complex work became deconstructed and commoditized. Many workers struggled to survive on meager paychecks with no protections eventually becoming subject to wage slavery.
Other groups in young America faced greater hurdles. Over ten million African people found themselves forcibly taken from their homelands, sent across oceans, sold …show more content…
Industrialism’s impact fundamentally changed the conditions of work in America particularly in the northeastern states during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The southern United States resisted mass industrialization and remained agrarian on the backs of slavery. Abolitionists called for an end to slavery. Southern slaveholders argued for the necessity of retaining slavery to prevent damage to the southern economy, widespread unemployment, failing crops, and uprisings. Slaveholders further argued that slavery should be allowed in the westward expanding United States. Resistance arose from slaves, industrialist, progressives, and lower class white Americans who feared land grabs and enhanced power of slave holders. America’s economic and social divide grew. Government policies and conflict over direction of the westward expanding United States strained a nation drifting in different
Other groups in young America faced greater hurdles. Over ten million African people found themselves forcibly taken from their homelands, sent across oceans, sold …show more content…
Industrialism’s impact fundamentally changed the conditions of work in America particularly in the northeastern states during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The southern United States resisted mass industrialization and remained agrarian on the backs of slavery. Abolitionists called for an end to slavery. Southern slaveholders argued for the necessity of retaining slavery to prevent damage to the southern economy, widespread unemployment, failing crops, and uprisings. Slaveholders further argued that slavery should be allowed in the westward expanding United States. Resistance arose from slaves, industrialist, progressives, and lower class white Americans who feared land grabs and enhanced power of slave holders. America’s economic and social divide grew. Government policies and conflict over direction of the westward expanding United States strained a nation drifting in different