It created a need for raw materials and markets
The telephone and the light bulb
It is the belief in the oversoul that caused Transcendentalists to believe that everyone should trust their intuition since the intuition was connected to that spiritual, god-like part of human nature. Belief in the oversoul is also why Transcendentalists believed that humans were essentially good.
(AKA heaven)
A thing that is really important when talking about capitalism is the fact of exploitation and its roots in the industrial revolution which exploited many people. However, what also needs to be said is the fact that people in capitalism produce huge amounts of varied goods that are helpful for daily needs of people.
...Charged very high prices to move farm products to market
The farmers felt the railroads had monopoly power over them. The farmers essentially had no choice but to send their crops to market on trains. There was not much, if any, competition on most short-line tracks that went through farm areas. Therefore, most farmers had to simply accept whatever price railroads charged to transport crops. Farmers felt the railroads could gouge them by charging high prices and that they, the farmers, had no recourse when this happened. They blamed much of their trouble on this monopoly power.
