Evaluate how much commercial development changed United States society from 1800 to 1855.
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From 1800 to 1855 commercial development changed U.S. society significantly by drawing young women and immigrants into wage labor, creating a new urban middle class, and tying the cotton South to Northern industry, even as it deepened the regional divide over slavery.
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Baker wrote for the Lowell Offering, a magazine of mill workers' writing that critics at the time saw as friendly to the mill owners, so its audience and purpose push toward a respectable picture of factory life - which makes any hardship she does describe especially telling.
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Compare the Market Revolution's effects on different regions and groups - Northern factory workers, Southern planters and enslaved people, free Black elites - or connect the period's labor debates to later industrial conflict.
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