Economic Changes Between The United States Between 1776 And 1870

From the writing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the United State of American has always been changing and influenced by events along the way. American witnessed significant political, economical, and social changes between the years 1776 and 1870. The country grew in almost every aspect from rebelling colonists who fought for their freedom to the Americans of the 1870s. The government of the United States of America dramatically changed within the first one hundred years of its existence. Once the colonies declared their independence, the responsibility of governing its people fell to the states. Some of these states had unicameral legislature that did include any form of executive power which is

While states were busy governing only their people in the first years of the United States of America, the federal government couldn’t easily trade with countries for goods. Once the constitution united the states, American factories saw a boom in development with the fuel of the industrial revolution. During this time, the south profited from labor intensive crops such as tobacco, rice, and cotton. The southern states dramatically thrived with the new invention of the cotton gin. Farms were now able produce a significantly more of cotton in less time. By the 1870s, northern factories were continuing to be the fundamental economic source while the south lost the root of their economy. With slaves free and many farms damaged in the Civil War, the south struggled to regain the production they had once before. Farmers resorted to sharecropping or wage labor to start up their plantations once again. The north saw tremendous growth in their factories and trade between 1776 and 1870, but the south grew their huge cotton planation cottons only to have their fundamental labor source taken away, leaving the south in a time of reconstruction by the