From: Tiffani Joseph
Date: 3/21/00
Time: 4:58:51 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.207.207
During the 1830s, entrepreneurs developed hotels in industrial cities to provide living space for travelers. For an admission fee, people were able to reside and eat at these hotels. This gave travelers a sense of an American city. These hotels offered gaslight, indoor plumbing, and steam heat, which was foreign to some of these visitors. Social class or occupation did not matter when these travelers were being served at the hotels. This was one the ways in which the U.S. was considered a land of opportunity. This would have been seen as an equal idea except for the fact that this new development discriminated against single women, blacks, and Native Americans. Along side with the emergence of hotels was the term democracy. Democracy in definition is a government ruled by the people. This new theory wasn’t accepted by the people because of their conception of balance and order under a republic state. It was always accepted that the high class should have better treatment than the lower class; democracy changed all this stating that one of the lower class can rise to higher class. This contradicted America’s image of land of opportunity whereas democracy provided equality of reward. As the land of opportunity, Americans were promised an equal start; their fate was in their own hands. This promise of the United States applied to white males only, thus America was not an equal opportunity towards the non-whites and women.