Change And Influence In 1831 By Louis P. Masur

The eclipse represents change. Change however, can give rise to uncertainty. Uncertainty can cause people to be scared and when people are scared they are capable of anything. When people are scared they can be lead into darkness and become dangerous. In Louis P. Masur’s book, “1831,” he explains how the eclipse represents the events that went on during 1831. Masur proves his point by showing how all the people currently residing in the United States started to began questioning state decisions, government decisions, slavery, abolition, religion, politics, and technology. This included slaves, slave owners, freed slaves, immigrants, Native Americans, women, settlers, naturalists, religious adherents, atheists, agnostics, and people in

The working class formed political parties to help protect their ideas and viewpoints. For example, Mansur uses the Anti-Masonic Party to show how the working class formed political parties to protect their viewpoint. The Anti-Masonic Party was an extension of the working classes antagonism (“active hostility or opposition”). This created a sense of disarray because people did not feel as though they were being equally represented. Which is what is whole political system is supposed to based on. Everyone has the right to equal representation. The Anti-Masonic party was in reaction to not feeling equally represented. They wanted to focus on class issues in order to avoid extremely violent outcomes among the

Emerging technology that Mansur mentions is the invention of the steam locomotive. The steam locomotive would completely revolutionize and change transportation methods. Before this time the only way you could transfer goods was either by carriage, horseback, or ship. With the invention of the railroad it would help to aid in the transfer of goods and services more quickly then previous methods. This invention also helped to aide soldiers during war because they were able to get supplies more quickly and efficiently. Slave owners previously feared that they would not be able to sustain crops until new technologies emerged that would then alleviate those fears. The reaper which cut and collected crops that was automated manually for laboring processes. This device helped to replace the need for