Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0026 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Market and Transportation Revolutions
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The idea
Mills at Waltham and Lowell hired young women and split artisan work into steps, called deskilling. Speculation and unbacked paper money caused the Panic of eighteen nineteen. Roads, canals and railroads shrank distance.
In practice
The Erie Canal joining the Hudson to Lake Erie and western markets.
Where people slip
Three classes formed: an elite, a middle class prizing work and education, and wage workers affording neither.
Your place on the trail
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