Industrialization changed everything in America. The way we worked, shopped, thought, even the ways in which we lived changed because of industrialization. Before this time people worked according to the cycles of nature, but now they were regulated by the whistle and the time clock. As time past the changes taking place around them seemed to speed up and it worried people. They felt that too many things were changing, that the way people lived was changing.
People are creatures of habit.
They don t want things to change if it is not necessary. Changes in people s routines will upset them and make them wish for simpler times. The war with Mexico was a conflict fraught with significance for both nations. Why people either supported or opposed the war, and what was the role of patriotism in the war is all in the reading. The article brings these issues up, it is up to you to interpret what the article says in an essay.