What new working class cultural practices emerged in large antebellum cities, and why?

This was a period when people fled from farm to cities. Many inmigrants left Europe and went to America and as they couldn't establish in farms, they set themselved in the cities.

Urbanization increased and with it, standard of living and Americans could spare some income for entertainment.

German immigrants tended to travel as families and carried with them skills and capital that enabled them to enter middle class trades.

In industrial northern cities, Irish immigrants formed trade unions. Labor activists organized to limit working hours and protect children in factories. Women, a dominant labor source for factories , launched some of the earliest strikes for better conditions.

The major challenge that the framers faced when setting out to write the Constitution was to create a document and a system of government that could be inclusive of all of the perspectives and viewpoints of the delegates and states involved in the convention. For fear of more conflict amongst the states it was necessary to work to create a document that would be a grand compromise of the many competing views.