How Did The Market Revolution Change American Culture

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Just in the same way the American System of economics was created and implemented, it would open the door for the Market Revolution begin in America. This revolution would cause significant changes to the culture in America, that was influenced by three areas; first, in the way things were transported and communicated; second, changing farming to commercialized farming; and third improving industrialization in the country (Shultz, 2013). With the American System and the Market Revolution would make the American people to regain trust in the economy and would start the expansion of how goods were transported, which also reduce the cost as well. Therefore, canals were built for steam boats to carry goods, roads were built and eventually the …show more content…

To elaborate, the boats, as well as the railroads and roads, would bring a wide variety of goods quicker and cheaper, which would assist farmers, towns and even plantations across the country to get their goods to a market and make more of a profit. Communication was established and would help not only with getting information faster, it would also reduce the cost of physical transit of communication. Finally, we look at the results of commercializing farming and how the transportation would forever change the way farming would be done. Families were affected by this, especially since they had to try and grow everything that needed, now they could grow one to two crops that would grow well in their area and sell what they did not need. Moreover, the farmers could now go to a market and buy the goods they needed instead of trying to grow them …show more content…

The correlation of the economic boom and bust would cause the American people to call upon the government to become more sensitive to the needs of the people (Shultz, 2013). Furthermore, the increase in people able to vote and more of an interest in politics would lead more men entering into political races for office, which was also influenced by the controversial election that happened in 1824 and a rise in a major number of parties that would eventual lead to another two-party system, the Democrats and the Whigs. Politics as usually would change in how politicians would politic, they would run by the style instead of substance of a man, which would be the new way of doing things. Moreover, politicians would conduct public speeches, send out propaganda and make leaflets on what kind of campaign they were running (Shultz,

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