Economic Trends What are the political and social impacts of economic developments?????
Manufacturing expanded during war Bank of No. America then 1st Bank of U.S. Land Speculation States charter business corp. Outwork system grows What were the political and social impacts of each? Economy of a New Nation 1780-1810
Outwork= Opportu-nity for women
Supreme Court guards property Erie Canal Protective Tariffs 1816-1836: 2nd Bank of US Supreme Court guards property Erie Canal Protective Tariffs U.S. Textiles compete w/Britain Manufacturers grow in Midwest Economic Revolution 1820-1850
In what ways did the emerging industrial economy conflict with artisan republicanism?
Response to Prompt Common law against unions until Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) prioritize workers’ individual rights and business rights Producing v. non-producing society=workers as commodity Mechanization increased supply faster than demand
Industrial Revolution & National Economy Rise of Sharecropping after CW Railroad expansion Homesteading and ranching Vertical Integration Emergence of managerial work Economic cycles provoke calls for reform Industrial Revolution & National Economy 1870-1910
Problems with Trusts
Erosion of labor rights Isolationist Trade-tariffs Oligopolies Consumer culture Radios Refrigerators Cars Stock market bubble Fragile banking Boom & Bust 1920s-1930s
Military Industrial Complex Increase in real wages Consumption economy Infrastructure & suburbanization Gov’t Spending on Great Society then Vietnam Postwar Boom 1945-1970
Political and social impacts Consumption Conformity Sunbelt
Economic Developments… Have political and social impacts.