AP U.S. History / Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848
4.6 Market Revolution: Society and Culture
Notes
The Market Revolution created a middle class, changed women's roles (cult of domesticity), increased immigration (Irish, Germans) and nativism, and widened gaps between rich and poor.
Practice
The cult of domesticity said women should:
Separate spheres.
Large numbers of Irish immigrants arrived in the 1840s because of:
Famine.
Anti-immigrant sentiment in this era is called:
Know-Nothing Party.
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