History 242 - America in the Early National Era

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Hiram College

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Preachers, Planters, and Prostitutes: America in the Early National Era: Democracy and Capitalism. Both perhaps made their greatest advances during the early 19th century. Rapid market expansion along canal and railway corridors accompanied the mass politics of the Age of Jackson. Did democracy and capitalism reinforce or exist in dangerous tension with one another? Surveying the early republic, we will witness the coalescence and collision of democracy and capitalism. Preachers, planters, and prostitutes are apt symbols for this age. Each embodied democratic and capitalist forces. Evangelicals scorched the countryside, competing with one another to win the hearts of everyday people. Prostitutes capitalized on a rapidly emerging urban marketplace where all wares were up for sale. Southern planters denounced the greedy capitalists of the North, but simultaneously reaped great profits on cotton grown with slave labor. These and other figures who crossed the American landscape in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil war will populate this course.

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4.00

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WWW.HIRAM.EDU

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(330) 569-3211

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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