This week, a class on politics and culture in the United States from 1800 through the 1830s.

Suffolk University professor, Catherine Lasdow, explains,

The market revolution and the resulting urban changes had produced an American landscape that people described as energetic, materialistic, and seemingly constantly on the move.

She also describes how the country changed during the period between the presidency of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

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offer ends 20th of April, excludes Azure Express. So welcome to our lecture today on the growth of

cities in the early American Republic, a period of American history that I'm fascinated by,

and I'm really excited to share with all of you today.

And as we've already discussed in this class, we know that the early American Republic,

which were roughly defining as the period between the end of the American Revolution

and the election of Andrew Jackson was a period of possibilities and of problems.

It was a time in American history when many of the big questions about what the nation would look like, who would hold power,

and what kind of spaces and values would define the country remained very much in question.

And so last class we talked about America's transition to capitalism.

And we talked about how this economic transformation was linked to changes in the labor market, in banking systems, in the rise of

corporations. And we looked at how these transformations were particularly affecting for young

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