Middle Class

Early Republic by Last Best Hope of EarthJune 7, 2016May 31, 2016

The Classification of Americans

America’s economic development resulted in American workers being classified, creating tension between the classes.

Early Republic by Last Best Hope of EarthNovember 23, 2015

The Happiest People Upon the Earth

At the beginning of the 1800s, the American economy was becoming an unconventionally successful economy. Domestic commerce was “incalculably more valuable” than foreign commerce and “the home market for productions of the earth and manufactures is of more importance than all foreign ones.” Gordon Wood, Empire of Liberty, 707 quoting Nathan Miller, The Enterprise of a Free People: Aspects […]

War of 1812 by Last Best Hope of EarthNovember 17, 2015

The Emerging Middle Class and Entrepreneurial Spirit

Albert Gallatin knew as early as 1799 that the United States “had become commercially and socially different from the former mother country” England. Gordon Wood, Empire of Liberty, 704. At that time, Gallatin was a Congressman, but he would later serve as Secretary of the Treasury from 1801 to 1814. In realizing that America was different, […]