The Effects of Freedom in America

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The Effects ofFreedomin America
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Jamestown
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With the restructuring of work and opportunity
by the market revolution, wealth became much more
unevenly distributed in American society. Social
mobility still existed, but it was more limited
than boosters of the day claimed. As the economy
lurched up and down, individuals were at the
mercy of economic forces beyond their control.
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U.S. Population Growth
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I wanted to see the power of machinery, wielded
by the keenest calculations of human skill I
wanted to see how it was that these northerners
could buy our cotton, and carry it home,
manufacture it, bring it back, and sell it for
half nothing and, in the mean time, be well to
live and make money besides. David Crockett,
1834
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The dinner bells were ringing, and the folks
pouring out of the houses like bees out of a gum.
I looked at them as they passed all well
dressed, lively, and genteel in their appearance
indeed, the girls looked as if they were coming
from a quilting frolic. We took a turn round, and
after dining on a fine salmon, again returned,
and entered the factories. The out-door
appearance was fully sustained by the whole of
the persons employed in the different rooms. I
went in among the young girls, and talked with
many of them. Not one expressed herself as tired
of her employment, or oppressed with work all
talked well, and looked healthy. Here were
thousands, useful toothers, and enjoying all the
blessings of freedom,with the prospect before
them of comfort andrespectability.David
Crockett, 1834
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Real GDP per capita
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Real GDP per capita