History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1241 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Self-Made Manufacturers
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The idea
A distinct class rose from working-class origins, embodying the dream of upward social mobility through hard work and discipline.
In practice
A culture that celebrated hard work, against both the leisured southern planter and the inheriting northern merchant.
Where people slip
This is an ideology as much as a biography, and it is the origin of a story America still tells about itself.
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