What are the political and social impacts of economic developments ????? ECONOMIC TRENDS
Manufacturing expanded during war Bank of No. America then 1 st Bank of U.S. Land Speculation States charter business corp. Outwork system grows ECONOMY OF A NEW NATION
OUTWORK= OPPORTU- NITY FOR WOMEN
: 2 nd Bank of US Supreme Court guards property Erie Canal Protective Tariffs U.S. Textiles compete w/Britain Manufacturers grow in Midwest ECONOMIC REVOLUTION
IN WHAT WAYS DID THE EMERGING INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY CONFLICT WITH ARTISAN REPUBLICANISM?
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 RESPONSE TO PROMPT
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
PROBLEMS WITH TRUSTS
Erosion of labor rights Isolationist Trade-tariffs Oligopolies Consumer culture Radios Refrigerators Cars Stock market bubble Fragile banking 1920s-1930s BOOM & BUST
Military Industrial Complex Increase in real wages Consumption economy Infrastructure & suburbanization Gov’t Spending on Great Society then Vietnam POSTWAR BOOM
Consumption Conformity Sunbelt POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS
Have political and social impacts. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS…