Weigh the relative importance of the industrial and

1. Weigh the relative importance of the Industrial and Market revolutions in changing the American
economy. In what ways was the economy different in 1860 from what it had been in 1800? How would
you explain those differences?

2. In what ways did the emerging industrial economy conflict with artisan republicanism? How did wage
laborers respond to the new economy?
3. Why did Protestant Christianity and Protestant women emerge as forces for social change?
4. Why did women's issues suddenly become so prominent in American culture?
Why did women's issues suddenly become so prominent in in American culture?

Some of the main reasons that the women's issues came into the spotlight are due to: the religious
movements; abolitionism and separate spheres. With out these principles women's rights would have
fallen by the weigh side.
A., Henretta, J., Edwards, Rebecca, Self, O.. America: A Concise History, Volume One: To 1877, 5th
Edition. Bedford/St. Martin's, 01/2012. VitalBook file.
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