Crash course US history. The Market revolution.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Green, John, on-screen presenter.

Knowledgemotion Ltd., film distributor.

Crash Course US History, publisher. .

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Social aspects--United States--History.

Capitalism.

Commerce--History.

Commerce.

United States--Economic conditions.

United States.

United States--Commerce.

Genre:

Educational films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (14 minutes)

Other Title:

Market revolution

Crash course United States history

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Crash Course US History, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

In which John Green teaches you about the Market Revolution. In the first half of the 19th century, the way people lived and worked in the United States changed drastically. At play was the classic (if anything in a 30 year old nation can be called classic) American struggle between the Jeffersonian ideal of individuals sustaining themselves on small farms vs. the Hamiltonian vision of an economy based on manufacturing and trade. I'll give you one guess who won. Too late! It was Hamilton, which is why if you live in the United States, you probably live in a city, and are unlikely to be a farmer. In the early 19th century, new technologies in transportation and communication helped remake the economic system of the country. Railroads and telegraphs changed the way people moved goods and information around. The long and short of it is, the Market Revolution meant that people now went somewhere to work rather than working at home. Often, that somewhere was a factory where they worked for an hourly wage rather than getting paid for the volume of goods they manufactured. This shift in the way people work has repercussions in our daily lives right down to today.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2022).

OCLC:

1309919181