Question 1: What role did technology change play in improvements in agriculture during the era of the market revolution? What kind of impact on values did such changes foster?
When technology booms, there is no surprise to the beneficial advantages that come forth from agriculture, industry, and transportation: there was no exception in the market revolution of 1815. “One of the earliest and most important… was an iron plow introduced by Jethro Wood in 1819;” the plow led to the modification of almost every agricultural tools to excel farmers’ jobs twice or thrice as quickly (pg. 245). With the engineering of all these new farm tools, farmers were able to farm more land in less time. This led to more commercial farming than family farming, …show more content…
Canals and steamboats were formulated to improve the networks of the new agriculture; however, none was as successful and prosperous as the creation of railroads. Railroads were noted as the fastest transportation, greatly improving communication, and compared to the two days to York to Boston in steamboat, trains could make it in half a day. News that would usually take nineteen days to travel, would take only seven after the completion of the railroads. Charles Caldwell “praised the railroad as an agent of civilization that would help spread morality and education by linking people together more effectively” (pg. 256). Railroads symbolized the growth and speed America was evolving in, and their was nothing to hold them …show more content…
Slavery wasn’t so eagerly wished to be abolished in the South due to capital, but posters promoting how African Americans would take the job of white men didn’t add to abolition; however, due to slavery, some Northerners thought “the dueling and other violence they associated with the South was a result of the brutality inherent in the institution of slavery” (pg. 272). Despite thinking that every Southerner owned slaves, it was quite the opposite. A vast majority of the South were yeoman farmers that worked their own farm and had to rely on large planters for mills or transportation: the system was a good economical relationship between dependent and independent planters. Nonetheless, since large plantations with slaves set the economy for the state and held power, the yeoman were controlled in the war and were the ones to capture runaway slaves, but some yeoman were amongst a class that had no land and poor. Since they were in such dire situations, the yeoman were dependent on the large planters who owned slave to continue their
When technology booms, there is no surprise to the beneficial advantages that come forth from agriculture, industry, and transportation: there was no exception in the market revolution of 1815. “One of the earliest and most important… was an iron plow introduced by Jethro Wood in 1819;” the plow led to the modification of almost every agricultural tools to excel farmers’ jobs twice or thrice as quickly (pg. 245). With the engineering of all these new farm tools, farmers were able to farm more land in less time. This led to more commercial farming than family farming, …show more content…
Canals and steamboats were formulated to improve the networks of the new agriculture; however, none was as successful and prosperous as the creation of railroads. Railroads were noted as the fastest transportation, greatly improving communication, and compared to the two days to York to Boston in steamboat, trains could make it in half a day. News that would usually take nineteen days to travel, would take only seven after the completion of the railroads. Charles Caldwell “praised the railroad as an agent of civilization that would help spread morality and education by linking people together more effectively” (pg. 256). Railroads symbolized the growth and speed America was evolving in, and their was nothing to hold them …show more content…
Slavery wasn’t so eagerly wished to be abolished in the South due to capital, but posters promoting how African Americans would take the job of white men didn’t add to abolition; however, due to slavery, some Northerners thought “the dueling and other violence they associated with the South was a result of the brutality inherent in the institution of slavery” (pg. 272). Despite thinking that every Southerner owned slaves, it was quite the opposite. A vast majority of the South were yeoman farmers that worked their own farm and had to rely on large planters for mills or transportation: the system was a good economical relationship between dependent and independent planters. Nonetheless, since large plantations with slaves set the economy for the state and held power, the yeoman were controlled in the war and were the ones to capture runaway slaves, but some yeoman were amongst a class that had no land and poor. Since they were in such dire situations, the yeoman were dependent on the large planters who owned slave to continue their