Overview of the Market Revolution

1800's

A shift from a producer culture to a consumer culture.

Rapid improvements in transportation and communication; the production of goods for a cash market; and the use of inventions and innovations to produce goods for a mass market.

<p>Roads (National Road); Canals (Erie Canal); Steamboats; and Railroads.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson, 1803</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney 1793; Steamboat - Robert Fulton 1807; Steam-driven Printing Press - Friedrich Koenig 1810; Sewing Machine - Elias Howe 1846; Reaper - Cyrus McCormick 1847.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It made it easier for the seeds in cotton to be removed once picked.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Steamboat made it easier to travel through shallow waters.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sewing machine made it easier to make clothing out of cloth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reaper changed farming forever by making the process of harvesting crops much easier for farmers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Approximately 300 incorporated companies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Approximately 2000 incorporated companies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1800</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In 1800 there was 5 million and in 1820 there were 10 million.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The growth of cities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Urbanization began to occur due to industrialization and demand for jobs, in which more people began moving to the cities, especially immigrants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In 1860 the urban population was 6% and it grew to 15% in 1860.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ireland, England, Germany, and France</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Approximately 5 million</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They were escaping from their countries' economic problems (Ireland during the Great Famine; England during the failure of the democratization of the British government).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They took the low-class, unskilled jobs Americans didn't want.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Germans settled in America and began their own schools and newspapers along with their own churches.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Scandinavians settled mostly on farms in the old northwest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Irish mostly encountered hostility due to their being Roman Catholic. Natives of America thought that the immigrants were going to take their jobs and cut their wages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There were many violent anti-immigrant riots in big cities such as Philadelphia and New York.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Internal Improvements occurred which included the building of the National Road, the Erie Canal, and Railroads mostly in the north, along with Judicial Nationalism which favored the market instead of the farmers, workers, debtors, and states.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Farmers went into debt to finance the expansion of the economy. There was also the dilution of skills, economic dependence, competition, the separation of work and home, the devaluation of women's labor, novelty and choice.</p> Signup and view all the answers