Argumentative Essay: Manufacturing Vs. Agricultural In The United States
Manufacturing vs. Agricultural A main crisis or argument in America’s new government was whether we should be a manufacturing country or should we be agricultural. Now the main supporters of Manufacturing was Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists. While the main supporters for Agriculture was Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic Republicans. Hamilton strongly believed that our new country should have a strong base of Manufacturing, and he had some good reasons, too. One of the reasons Hamilton believed it so strongly because it added additional employment for American citizens. Our country has always had trouble with unemployment, then and now, mostly because we grew from our own employment which is very hard thing to do especially to grow
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One of his supporting arguments was factories created filth and disease. He had been in Europe earlier that year, a factory based country and he saw horrible plagues and disease spread like wildfire if you worked or lived near one of the factories also completely polluted the air and made the oxygen very thin in their atmosphere. He saw the horror and terribleness in Europe and didn’t want our wars and struggles to amount to that. His other reason was that factories were unnecessary in their processes and before them we had made everything by hand and agriculture. Like we didn’t need a factory full of machines making clothes for us. We had made our clothes before; we sewed them by hand with material we made out of cotton that we grew in the south. Or we made our own farming tools, weapons and anything that we might not be able to make out of the crops we grow. Plus we don’t need factories to process our foods we were fine living off what we had grown ourselves. Alexander Hamilton may have the strongest supporting details, but Thomas Jefferson had the most compelling argument of them all. They were both equally equipped with reasoning for this argument, but America was neither manufacturing or agricultural. America became both and we benefit from both equally. I think this mostly because America always worked better when we were all together not when we are
One of his supporting arguments was factories created filth and disease. He had been in Europe earlier that year, a factory based country and he saw horrible plagues and disease spread like wildfire if you worked or lived near one of the factories also completely polluted the air and made the oxygen very thin in their atmosphere. He saw the horror and terribleness in Europe and didn’t want our wars and struggles to amount to that. His other reason was that factories were unnecessary in their processes and before them we had made everything by hand and agriculture. Like we didn’t need a factory full of machines making clothes for us. We had made our clothes before; we sewed them by hand with material we made out of cotton that we grew in the south. Or we made our own farming tools, weapons and anything that we might not be able to make out of the crops we grow. Plus we don’t need factories to process our foods we were fine living off what we had grown ourselves. Alexander Hamilton may have the strongest supporting details, but Thomas Jefferson had the most compelling argument of them all. They were both equally equipped with reasoning for this argument, but America was neither manufacturing or agricultural. America became both and we benefit from both equally. I think this mostly because America always worked better when we were all together not when we are