The MARKET REVOLUTION'S Effect on SOCIETY [APUSH Review Unit 4 Topic 6] Period 4: 1800-1848

effects of market revolution on society and culture

• migration

  • north - size and diversity increased due to European immigrants

    • Irish came because of the Irish potato famine

    • germans came because they were just displaced farmers who wanted to settle somewhere else

  • jews established synagogues, catholic established churches

  • moved west and developed new communities

  • middle class - included people like businessmen, doctors, journalist

    • education

    • temperation

    • religious affiliation - protestant affiliation

  • cult of domesticity

    • a woman’s identity and purpose was to have babies, raise them, and provide a home that was a haven of rest to her husband

    • husband did the real work

  • Women who worked in factories worked 6 days a week, lots of hours in the day, and extremely low wages