Chapter 12
Vignette:
By 1832, many American workers felt threatened by the new industrial order. Worker protests had become increasingly common in the nation’s manufacturing centers. President Jackson had rewarded voters’ expectations but his term in office had also revealed many unreconciled tensions within the democratic political economy. These tensions arose in part from the very strengths of democracy and economic growth. Slavery, slave resistance, and free African-Americans contributed to growing antislavery activism. White southerners and northerners began to see each other’s differences. Middle class Americans also began to see differences between themselves and other Americans, especially immigrants. Where perfectionism had been the reform tendency, reform itself had become controversial.
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