JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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Manufacturing jobs.
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Slaves to work their new land.
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The indians to be their friends
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Better roads, water transportation, and cheap land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Westward expansion and the growth of the United States during the 19th century sparked a need for a better transportation infrastructure. At the beginning of the century, U.S. citizens and immigrants to the country traveled primarily by horseback or on the rivers. After a while, crude roads were built and then canals.
Detailed explanation-2: -The daily life of people living on the frontier was filled with hard work and difficulties. Once a farmer cleared the land, built a cabin and a barn, and planted his crops, he still had a lot of chores that needed to be done each day. In order to survive, the entire family needed to work.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first white Americans to move west were the mountain men, who went to the Rockies to hunt beaver, bear and elk in the 1820s and 1830s. Then, in 1841, a wagon train pioneered the 3, 200km-long Oregon Trail to the woodland areas of the north-west coast of America.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gold rush and mining opportunities (silver in Nevada) The opportunity to work in the cattle industry; to be a “cowboy” Faster travel to the West by railroad; availability of supplies due to the railroad. The opportunity to own land cheaply under the Homestead Act.