The early 19th century saw a time of booming economic and technological advancement that in turn, impacted cultural aspects of life in America. The market revolution, as it was later deemed, was invoked by the construction of the Erie Canal, which allowed for easy access to imported goods and greatly expanded trade and commerce. As a result, Buffalo and Rochester experienced great gains and the ability to easily trade with states in the mid-west. Also, the advent of the Market revolution saw the emergence of a newly defined middle class bound to factory labor and wage earnings. But with all the socioeconomic changes and the religious revival of the Second Great Awakening, there were still individuals who fought to preserve the patriarchal society that existed prior to the tumult of reformation and revolution. In Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz’s novel, The Kingdom of Matthias, Robert Matthews, the son of one of the many Scottish families of Coila, experiences several religious......
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