Impact Of The Market Revolution

The Market Revolution had a great impact on the lives of the workers by giving them jobs. It provided new opportunities and increased freedom, it also produced a great deal of concern. This century brought them from skilled laborers to unskilled laborers, though. Their lives started to revolve around the clock as they began to be required to work a certain amount of hours daily. The number of people immigrating from Ireland and Germany increased and citizens feared that these foreigners were going to steal their jobs. There were far more immigrants in the North than in the South because there were a lot more job opportunities due to there being fewer slaves. This disturbed nativists because they thought that since they were there first that
their jobs, land, and other opportunities should stay theirs; they shouldn't have to share with foreigners. Slavery became more outstanding and became ingrained in the South following the invention of the cotton gin. The freedom in America changed in a way that people got used to the idea of working daily and thought that they had no freedom. The factories were owned by white rich men, placing them in the higher class. The market revolution introduces different people such as; Women, Immigrants, and African Americans to express themselves more freely. People started working more hours to be successful so they could be at the top of the class. People became obsessed with wealth and challenged others to be richer than themselves. In Society, being independent meant you have