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Most of the people coming into the Western cost were farmers, the main reason that people migrated was due to unfertile soil and high land prices. Men and women had their own responsibilities, for example, men cut trees, they were building shelters, planting plants and broke the soil, on the other hand, women were cooking, taking care of their children and houses. Despite this, women also manufactured clothes, made soups, cultivated crops for the winter time and so forth. Eventually, they completed all tasks that were required by frontier framing (Divine page 207). After the war of 1812, the road transportation was very primitive that it took up to one hundred days for one wagon with products to travel from ‘Worcester, Massachusetts, to Charleston, …show more content…
The first road was built in 1811-1818 between Maryland and Virginia, known as ‘National Road,’ because this road was made easily and cheep, it crushed another toll road was build in 1825, the Erie canal but it lasted for only five years. This system was needed to connect the Ohio’s lake and the costal of Mississippi (Divine page 210-212). In fact, the transportation era brought a favorable success in economy; the agriculture had a remarkable success, as well as baking and industrial prosperity growth. People’s impulse created an increase in economy; they wanted to send their goods faster and with low cost, therefore farmers happily ship wheat and flour to New York from western cost with more profitable shipping fee through canals, in other words fast and less expensive. Additionally, Ohio and Mississippi farmers had profited from the transportation movement they were encouraged to ship their crops cheaper and receive more money from their …show more content…
The atmosphere was optimistically in a way, writers and publishers started to print for the audience (people) different types of genres, women in the society, melodramas and so forth, all these represented the American’s lifestyle and their beliefs ( Divine page 227). Despite this, Andrew Jackson was an American symbol for democracy; however in 1824 he lost the presidential election, four years later his victory was depicted as more democratic mold. In 1824 the election was intense between these individuals ‘John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Andrew Jackson’ from them no one got the majority of voting therefore the House of Representative decided to appoint Adams but his presidential administration had failed, therefore Jacskon took control over the Congress, and in 1828 Jackson and his supporters that worked at the party were very organized. The people accepted him as a democratic leader, and after justifying against Adams, finally he got his presidential triumph. While he was in office his democracy was based on firing those people from the office that he didn’t like or those that didn’t obey him as an important persona (Divine page 229-230). The Jackson administration concerned the Indian’s fate in America; he considered them just not ‘humans’ and he

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