US History › Section E · Industry and Jacksonian democracy › Topic E.3
A new social order: class divisions
The market and industrial revolutions created great new wealth, but shared it very unevenly. In northern cities between about 1820 and 1860, Americans sorted into classes with their own neighbourhoods, values, entertainments and opinions about slavery.
In this topic
- A society sorting itself by class
- Old money: the merchant elite
- Self-made manufacturers
- The middle class and its values
- Separate spheres
- Religion and reform
- Worked example: why employers backed temperance
- The working class
- Free Black northerners and immigrants
- Worked example: three views of slavery
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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