Joseph V. PalesanoProfessor ZarateHistory 7A #6857March 31, 2014The Silent SeparationA Trader's Millennium, written by Paul E Johnson in 1978, conveys the idea changing routes in trade, due to the effectiveness of Eerie Canal and the divisive political efforts of "elites", farmers became entrepreneurs, attempting to control reform movements until religious revivals of Charles Finney introduces patriarchal style leadership to control the social and moral lives of the residents of the city of Rochester. The author presents his account as a case study of the social, political, economic, and religious development of middle-class society in New York, as evidenced by the brilliant use of information gathered from church records, registers economic and political documents. There is a very interesting aspect that can be extracted from the story, namely the separation of Church and State. Were the Rochester “elites” of 1830 in violation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution which took effect in 1789? By 1820, the city of Rochester was going "BOOM", landowners and farmers were beginning to prosper in the export trade. Now supplying the major cities with food and textiles by making best use of the strange canal's most efficient trade route, reduced their operating expenses and increased their profits, which they invested in building mills powered by the strange canal waterfalls. . Another low-overhead effort, as factories needed fewer staff to maintain production, again reducing traditional overhead costs and increasing profits. Rochester's pre-industrial society, now entering into textile production...... middle of paper... ...the good of the people. The “Whig Party” is now known as the “Republican Party.” The author explains that the renaissance allowed for social control which facilitated this transition. Not to be confused with Marxism, this was not a capitalist plot, but a way to legitimize free labor. Finney appears as the government fails to assert control. He then creates the evangelical army led by the Masters and filtered down to the workers, presenting a philosophy of free moral agency within the community. The correct interpretation of the separation of church and state in the US Constitution is that it does not prohibit contact between church and state, it protects religious freedom for all. of the country. Works CitedJohnson, Paul E. A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978. Print.