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American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Millions immigrated to the United States after its founding, entranced with the promise of a better life. But the country they found was rough and tumble, less developed than the land they left, and had some serious issues. Last week we looked at slavery, and today we'll go inside the often-overlooked class conflict that was playing out among Americans, even as elites and commoners alike came together to fight the British.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
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0:07.0	Imagine it's 1794.
0:14.9	You're a Scottish immigrant to America who is just stepped off a boat in Albany, New
0:19.1	York.
0:20.1	Like thousands of other residents of the British Isles, you now see America as a land of opportunity.
0:25.8	The Revolutionary War, pitting your country against its American colonies, ended more
0:30.2	than a decade ago.
0:31.9	The new nation now has a constitution, president, a congress, a Supreme Court.
0:37.4	In other words, it has a foundation.
0:39.7	What it doesn't have is manufacturing.
0:42.7	You came to the United States from Scotland to launch your business, producing farm equipment,
0:47.5	an Albany 150 miles up river of where you landed in New York City is the place to be.
0:53.2	It's destined to be the capital of the state.
0:55.5	It's already an up and coming frontier town surrounded by miles of farmland, and that
1:00.3	means farmers who need equipment.
1:02.9	So you pack your bags and sail up the Hudson.
1:06.1	As you step off the boat, you are met on the dock by John Kirk, a fellow member of the
1:10.2	St. Andrews Society, a Scottish benevolent organization.
1:14.0	It was your correspondence with him that convinced you to come to Albany, and now he's eager
1:18.4	to show off his home.
1:19.9	As you can see, much of the town is new.
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