History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1239 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Elite Institutions
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The idea
Elite families made strategic marriages to protect and expand their economic interests, and lived in neighbourhoods segregated by wealth.
In practice
Ten chambers of commerce by eighteen fifty-eight, and the Philadelphia Club of eighteen thirty-four, first of the social clubs.
Where people slip
These are institutions for excluding people, and entry 1243 covers who was excluded.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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