Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

It looks like importing a lot of have nothings from Europe to the colonies was accomplished by keeping land prices artificially high in America so the have-nothings that came kept the wage-labor market full of their lot for the capitalists (buyers-merchants) in the colonies was the story of the 18th century. The merchant-capitalist of the 17th century became the best means as a hybrid form of employing labor in a time when labor just kept on coming to America ship after ship by the droves. Formerly, a store merchant only had to add a workshop of workers and that would make a corporation. The earliest system of producing goods is born with manufacturing by hand and producing what it sells not selling things already produced as formerly the merchant restricted himself. More workers that came on board for hire the bigger the merchant got to become a full blown capitalist seems to be what the 18th century was about, the origins of the capitalists in America. A story of creating capitalists for the employment of more workers coming into the country. The Tories seemed to have had a plan, keep the price of land high enough to keep immigrants from becoming landowners and low enough to have more land owned by fewer landowners who could afford it and these people became the the forerunners to the republican party in people like Buchanan, Jackson, Polk in the Pre-Civil War period. Around the time the Indian Wars were happening to free the land from Indian common ownership and control and open the way for a western expansion of basically, slavery for the landowners and wage labor for the capitalists, side by side on the shores of California and everyplace in between. I would not put it passed anyone that this Tory split had elements that created the Confederate Congress in Montgomery. Then it looks like the 19th century had the stream of immigrants diverted by government pressure to go from the British Colonies to America. The west wasn't opening fast enough to absorb how many were thrown into the American labor-markets. It seems the plan was plagued by Indian resistance. Remember the merchant-capitalist that became a corporation? well he wasn't the only social class to get big at the time. A huge financial Aristocracy bought so much western public land sold by the government on speculation the railroad and mining industries would expand west...this was the end of the Promised Land of the great American republic the Founding Fathers made for the immigrant workers appearing as Europe's huddled masses. The end of the Age of the Enlightenment of 1776 and the beginning of a conflicted America leading into a Civil War.
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