Chapter 9
The Market Revolution

51. Complaint of a Lowell Factory Worker

1. The female factory worker compared her conditions with those of slaves because she felt like they were being treated like slaves by not being allowed to speak for themselves. She felt that they were awed into silence by wealth and power and was under tyranny and cruel oppression

2. She doubt the sincerity of the Christian beliefs of the factory owners because they talk benevolence in the parlor, compel their help to labor for a mean and paltry pittance in the kitchen. They manifest great concern for souls of the heathen in distant lands and care for nobody else besides their own.

52. Immigrants Arriving in New York City

1. The tone the reporter adopted regarding the immigrants is hostile because of how he describes the immigrants and how they looked. He described them having degraded faces with many stamps of inferiority.

2. The aspirations the reporter thinks are uppermost in the immigrant’s minds is hope, freedom, and a chance to work, and food to the laboring man.

53. A Woman in the Westward Movement

1. Moving west altered tradition expectations of women’s roles by proving that they could endure rough conditions from moving west. They were left to be lonely and the burdens of pioneer life.

2. Mrs. Noble’s main complaints about her situation on the frontier was carrying her infants and not being able to sleep because of thinking about wild beasts. She also had to cook in the open air instead of in a log house. She doesn’t regret having moved to Michigan because it was a better location than New York.

54. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”

1. Emerson felt that American writers and artists are “cowed” because he believed they came late into nature and the world was finished a long time ago. They need serenity and great aims to