Requirement reading:

Excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”: https://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/CS/Walden.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Excerpt from Harriet Hanson Robinson’s memoirs about her experiences as a Lowell mill girl: http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/robinson-lowell.asp (Links to an external site.)

Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty: An American History, Volume 1, (Fourth Edition), the remainder of Chapter 9.

Must be a 2 PAGES, double-spaced

The perspective of one of the characters. use AS MUCH INFORMATION from the chapter as possible, especially pertaining to the economic changes and corresponding social changes.

Question: A Jeffersonian/Democratic-Republican– do the market revolution and new economy help or hurt the Jeffersonian ideas about the free market and his envisioned agrarian republic– what of the federal government and its role in the economy?