Amin Mohammed
10/25/2021
Chapter 9 Document Journal Entry
The economic changes in the first half of the nineteenth century was a crucial and
effectful incident which affected the early years of the United States of America. Although
there were differences in how people experienced it, it affected people of all backgrounds
and races. It transformed the American society and marked the beginning of
industrialization. It is a period that left a significant effect on how individuals lived and the
manner in which organizations worked. The early industrial revolution centered on factories
producing cotton textiles with water-powered spinning and weaving machinery (Voices of
Freedom,54). Youthful unmarried ladies from Yankee ranch families ruled the labor force
that tended spinning machines. The lady normally stayed in the processing plants for a
couple of years, after which they got back, wedded, or moved west. Women activists started
speaking up against the labor movement after suffering financial reverses. One notable
activist was Sarah Bagley, who came to Lowell in 1837 and became the editor of the Voice of
Industry, who equally stood up for both men and women (Voices of Freedom,54). Her
scrutinization of the northern work framework was like contentions progressed by
proslavery scholars like George Fitzhugh. America's financial extension energized an interest
for work that was met, to a limited extent, by expanded migration from abroad in which over
4 million people migrated to the United States of America in which the majority were Irish or
German ethnicities (Voices of Freedom, 56). Most of the immigrants starting heading
towards the northern state where jobs were more abundant than the South. There arose of
new yield, cotton, that turned into the highlight in this evolving economy. By 1825, cotton
had turned into the country's most important commodity. While cotton filled the economy
of both the North and the South, there were wrecking impacts on individuals and the
climate. The fruitful creation of cotton resuscitated a withering organization of bondage.
Working conditions turned out to be more brutal for oppressed individuals and families
regularly became isolated as enslavers in Maryland and Virginia sold slaves to states like
Alabama and Mississippi where the new cotton culture flourished. Gendered assumptions
for ladies moved during this period as more well-off ladies could accept their jobs dealing
with the family while helpless ladies, subjugated ladies, and most homestead ladies had no
choice except for to work- - and buckle down. Some white Americans reacted with violence
manner of speaking prompted brutality against outsiders, most outstandingly Catholics.
Blacks and other minority groups didn't profit from these progressions occurring in the
United States. While other immigrants sent money back home to convince relatives to come
and join them in the states (Voices of Freedom, 54).