respond to this: The United States always had mercantile interests, its dedication to capitalism may reach back to the days of Alexander Hamilton, who developed a banking and economic system based on tying the United States to the fortunes of its wealthiest individuals, in the early 19th Century these processes of commerce and large scale economic development would accelerate, fueled by Westward expansion and the cotton trade, the human costs of capitalism in this period would be enormous, trampling marginalized groups even while other groups would prosper and have more access to goods. The Federalisst in their original conception of a United States economy no longer tethered to Great Brittain's conceived market system that would help ensure that America's dollar and dedication to commerce would be a key part of its trajectory.[1]Commerce would be greatly accelerated with the development of cotton as an export crop, fortunes were made as the slave-worked cotton fields produced a commodity that was in high demand in European markets.[2] This market economy would trample marginalized groups and the people who actually worked within it. Slaveowners would work enslaved people very hard and were constantly worried about their workers taking revenge on their masters.[3]By the 1850s a new capitalist economy with industry and far flung trading networks was being established, industrial techniques were introduced from England which kicked off a manufacturing boom, workers were introduced to a system where production could create products at large volume. There was the idea that with hard work in this system even a poor man could become wealthy.[4] This ideological commitment would reinforce the American connection with capitalism