In the early 1800s, France owned approximately 827,000 square miles of land in the United States that was named Louisiana at the time. Louisiana was the size of the United States, so if the Americans gained Louisiana, they would double the amount of land. The Anti-Federalists, mostly farmers in the South and favor France, thought this would be a great opportunity for the United States. This would help the United States by expanding their agriculture to make more money by selling cotton to Britain, and the Anti-Federalists were planning to make the land slave states because if there is agriculture, there are slaves since they are the ones working in the fields. However, the Federalists, mostly merchants in the North and anti-France, thought …show more content…
Both countries said to only choose one country to trade with, and the United States chose neither Britain nor France. The United States became more independent and started a market revolution. The market revolution expanded the idea of a marketplace throughout the country. With the market revolution, this lead farmers and manufacturers started to produce goods for the market instead of making food for themselves, and now they are making profit from the markets. Also, there were improvements in transportation to get production from one side of the country to the other, more money from the profit, more slaves to make the mass production, and cult of domesticity. Cult of Domesticity was a belief that women should just stay at home and just be in a closed environment where they just clean and cook. This is where the idea However, at the time of the Civil War, all the men were at war, so the women and children had to replace the men and work in the factories. For example, the Lowell girls who worked at the Lowell factories had strict rules they had to follow on the days they were working, were lied to, treated like slaves, worked in harsh working conditions, and were brutally hurt to the point where some