1. Market Revolution

2. Move towards industry Away from agrarian ideal
More toward building on mass scale

3. US Market Expands Economy grew exponentially Free enterprise
entrepreneurs

4. Invention and Improvements
Transformation of manufacturing
New transportation
communication

5. Invention and Improvements
Samuel Morse creates the Telegraph
23,000 miles of telegraph wire

6. Invention and Improvements
Steam boat
Canals: 3,300 miles by 1840
Erie Canal
Railroad: 9,000 miles by 1850

9. Transforming a nation 14% of Americans worked in manufacturing
Better, cheaper goods
Midwest settled and farmed
John Deere steel plow

10. Government Help General incorporation law
2 court cases struck down monopolies
Encourage competition
Helped with roads, canals, bonds to back railroad

11. Changing workplace Production in factories Created new communities
Most along waterways
Created new communities
Changed employee, employer relations

12. Lowell Textile Mills Lowell, Massachusetts Booming enterprise
Female labor, in order to pay less
Conditions worsened

13. Seeking better conditions
Strikes
15% wage cut, Lowell Strike
Criticized by press and clergy
Replace unskilled workers easily

14. Immigration increase 3 million in 9 years 1 million were Irish
Prejudices faced

15. National Trade Union Trade unions in towns joined
Journeymen's organizations
National Trade Union
Commonwealth v. Hunt