This discussion question will focus on the Market Revolution and its impact on how Americans lived their lives. To get more context to analyze the accompanying documents (primary sources) you can refer to Chapter 9 in your textbook, Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1. Please do not cite the textbook in your response. Analyze the primary sources and choose 2-3 documents that address some or all the following questions,
In what ways did the transportation, communication, and market revolutions change the everyday lives of Americans? Were there winners and losers in the outcome of the market revolution? On balance, was it a beneficial development? Were the South and the North opposite ends of this development or connected? Do you thing a “national market economy,” in which regions of the national specialized in certain goods for the trade with other regions, would link the nation together or pill it apart?
Directions:
Write a 500-800 word analytical response that is supported by 2-3 documents.
You are welcome to support or argue against a point brought by your fellow student using the textbook and/or documents (primary sources).
A response to your peers is not necessary to get full points.
This is an academic discussion so you can agree or disagree with each other politely and with supporting sources provided in class.
Citation Example:
In Document “Title” we can see…(3) OR John Green argues in “title of essay” that….(6)
Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Document 3).
Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).
Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (Document 6).
