In the first half of the 19th century, an emerging retail market would profoundly affect the lives of the nations working people. While the South underwent a tremendous expansion in cotton production, the North experienced an improved method of production.
How did the cotton gin change the lives of southern slaves and poor whites? How did the division of labor, as Smith and Tocqueville observed, change the nature of work for northern artisans and journeymen?
Conclude your paper by evaluating the degree to which workers shared in the nations prosperity.
Support your argument with evidence from class readings (Modules 6, 7, 8, & 9). Use proper in-text citations, citing the authors last name and page number when quoting directly and paraphrasing from the readings. For your introductory paragraph, you need NOT include any names of authors or titles from the assigned readings. Follow MLA style for in-text citations and works cited page. When citing Smith and Tocqueville, state their last names and the paragraph number (e.g. Smith, para. 4). Use the format below for Smith and Tocqueville in your works cited page, in addition to the other assigned readings:
De Tocqueville, Alexis. How an Aristocracy May Be Created by Manufactures http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch2_20.htm
Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/WEALTH1.HTM
