The United States of America had to face many trials in its young history in its pursuit of becoming an independent nation. Now that the fight for independence was over, it was time to establish a nation of free people. While Jefferson had the idea of the Agrarian Republic for the people of the United States another path came to light. The United States became a nation focused on trade, and marketing in its early years after the War of 1812. It was becoming a more capitalistic state as many people’s lives were changing from just simply making enough for themselves to making a profit off what they made. This was due to movements in the United States such as the Market Revolution. It was after the Market Revolution that the Panic of 1837 struck
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Abolitionism was a part of the Antebellum movement as well and it was most likely caused by the ever-expanding rift created between the Northern Industrialized States and the Southern Agricultural states. Much of people in the North were against the idea of slavery and this created the Abolitionist reforms, whose main goal was the abolishment of slavery and then the equal rights of African Americans after they are freed. It was this group that was quite successful in the Northern States as they got many to agree with them on the topic of slavery (Faragher, 354-355). However, In the South, many of the ideas of this movement was suppressed by the Southerners as it threatened the men of their economic livelihood (Faragher, 355). The ideals that motivated the Abolition reforms would be the basic human rights as seen in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. It was also motivated by the fear of a slave revolt happening again such as the revolt in 1841 under the leadership of the slave Nat Turner (Faragher, 271). Because of this revolt the hopes of peaceful abolitionism was dashed and it did not help the goals of abolitionism in the South due to fear of another …show more content…
The conditions of which many of these people lived were inhumane as they live in what was essentially a concrete box and were commonly abused by the staff of the prison and were essentially treated as less than human. While some of the prison reforms could be implemented such as the Auburn System at Auburn State prison and Sing Sing prison. The Auburn system was deemed a failure due to the amount of money it would cost to maintain (Faragher, 349). Other problems such as overcrowding couldn’t be fixed due to the lack of money that prisons are given by both the state and federal governments, so in short the Prison Reforms were a failure compared to the other reform movements (“The Prison and Asylum Reforms”). While the ideal for the Prison reform was to improve the living condition and improving the mental health of prisoners it was to make us seem more humane from other countries as well as introducing prisoner rights. The fear the motivated this was also based on the guilt of realizing the horrors of what occurred in prison make a nation look bad if they treat their prisoners like
Abolitionism was a part of the Antebellum movement as well and it was most likely caused by the ever-expanding rift created between the Northern Industrialized States and the Southern Agricultural states. Much of people in the North were against the idea of slavery and this created the Abolitionist reforms, whose main goal was the abolishment of slavery and then the equal rights of African Americans after they are freed. It was this group that was quite successful in the Northern States as they got many to agree with them on the topic of slavery (Faragher, 354-355). However, In the South, many of the ideas of this movement was suppressed by the Southerners as it threatened the men of their economic livelihood (Faragher, 355). The ideals that motivated the Abolition reforms would be the basic human rights as seen in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. It was also motivated by the fear of a slave revolt happening again such as the revolt in 1841 under the leadership of the slave Nat Turner (Faragher, 271). Because of this revolt the hopes of peaceful abolitionism was dashed and it did not help the goals of abolitionism in the South due to fear of another …show more content…
The conditions of which many of these people lived were inhumane as they live in what was essentially a concrete box and were commonly abused by the staff of the prison and were essentially treated as less than human. While some of the prison reforms could be implemented such as the Auburn System at Auburn State prison and Sing Sing prison. The Auburn system was deemed a failure due to the amount of money it would cost to maintain (Faragher, 349). Other problems such as overcrowding couldn’t be fixed due to the lack of money that prisons are given by both the state and federal governments, so in short the Prison Reforms were a failure compared to the other reform movements (“The Prison and Asylum Reforms”). While the ideal for the Prison reform was to improve the living condition and improving the mental health of prisoners it was to make us seem more humane from other countries as well as introducing prisoner rights. The fear the motivated this was also based on the guilt of realizing the horrors of what occurred in prison make a nation look bad if they treat their prisoners like