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How did westward expansion and the Market Revolution change how Americans lived and worked in the early 19th Century?

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The market revolution sparked explosive economic growth and new personal wealth, but it also created a growing lower class of property-less workers and a series of devastating depressions, called “panics.” Many Americans labored for low wages and became trapped in endless cycles of poverty.

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