HRT-2020 Chapter : Chapter 9
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Nature and implications of changing american society 1820-1860: Don"t have to be an elite or a property holder: the bulk of the people saying deference isn"t fair is fueling this move to democratization. Barnum: before he did the circus, he had a traveling museum, he had these oddities like the feejee. South carolina; a scientist goes and says its fake but a newspaper editor goes and says its real: judgment became a democratic process, everyone"s view became valid in the. More and more white men are voting. People are struggling to come to terms with this: another way people can say things are quite like they used to be. Lots of people died because they put too much crap in them and they blew up: b. Internal improvements: railroads break the bonds of nature because they go so fast, they thought about railroads as giant iron vehicles that transported crops and people.
