In the late Eighteenth Century there existed a great debate between the most prominent philosophic and political thinkers of the age. The topic of the debate would ultimately change the face of the United States of America into the country that we live in today. The landscape of the nation was very different from what it is now. Farmland and dusty roads took up most of the land. People were content with living unsophisticated lives …showed first 75 words of 1353 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1353 total…of Jefferson and the others that were against the manufacture movement were confirmed by the textile town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Bibliography Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Era of Expansion, 1800-1848. New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1969. Licht, Walter. Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Matthews, Richard K. The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson. Kansas: The University Press of Kansas, 1984. Robinson, Harriet, H. Loom & Spindle. Kailua, Hawaii: Press Pacifica, 1976.