Question: A Jeffersonian/Democratic-Republican-- do the market revolution and new economy help or hurt the Jeffersonian ideas about the free market and his envisioned agrarian republic-- what of the federal government and its role in the economy?
Requirement reading:
Excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Walden":
https://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/CS/Walden.pdf (Links to an external site.)
Excerpt from Harriet Hanson Robinson's memoirs about her experiences as a Lowell mill girl:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/robinson-lowell.asp (Links to an external site.)
Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty: An American History, Volume 1, (Fourth Edition), the remainder of Chapter 9.
Must be a 2 PAGES, double-spaced
The perspective of one of the characters. use AS MUCH INFORMATION from the chapter as possible, especially pertaining to the economic changes and corresponding social changes.