1. 9.1: The Market Revolution
Objectives:
To describe how industrialization and capitalization shaped the U.S. economy
To identify the inventions that enhanced people’s lives and helped fuel the economy’s growth
To explain how improved transportation and communication helped link America’s regions and made them interdependent

2. U. S. Markets Expand People begin to buy and sell at markets
People began to shift towards specialization
This led to the Market Revolution
America grew more from than it did from !!
This quickening pace depended on capitalism
Many entrepreneurs began businesses and invest in industries
U. S. Markets Expand

3. **During this growth of industry in markets and cities, what was happening to farms?

4. Inventors and Improvements
–Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber 
– Elias Howe invents the sewing machine
Why were these inventions important?
What impact did they have?

5. Instant Communication
– Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
Messages can be sent in seconds
How are they sent?
Why was this important?

6. Transportation Revolution
– Robert Fulton invents the Steamboat 
Could travel up to 5 MPH
– Erie Canal
Costs dropped sharply
Connected the East and West
Made NYC a major port

7. Emergence of Railroads
6. Railroads became increasingly popular in the 1840s-1860s
Were expensive, but FAST
Could travel up to 10mph!
Deliver goods to people not near waterways
By 1850,over 10,000 miles of track had been laid

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Map: Railroad Growth,
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9. New Markets Link Regions
Canals, road, RRs, and the telegraph have linked all the regions of the U.S.!
East – textiles and machinery
West – grain and livestock
South – cotton
NORTHEAST
NYC is the central link to Europe
Only 14% of workers had manufacturing jobs
Products were available all over and continued to get cheaper

10. MIDWEST SOUTH 7. 1837 – John Deere invented the steel plow
By 1850, he was selling 13,000 a year!
– Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical reapers
Still relied on crops
Didn’t like industrialization
How is America changing through this “revolution”?

11. 1837: John Deere invents the steel plow.
1837: John Deere invents the steel plow.
What was the impact of this device?

12. What is the long-term impact of the mechanical reaper?
Model of McCormick reaper, 1850s
(Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
What is the long-term impact of the
mechanical reaper?

13. How is America changing through this “revolution”?
Improvements helped people keep in touch with one another
Changed economic relationships between the groups, creating new markets where they had none
Encouraged Southerners and Northerners to expand west

14. To describe how industrialization and capitalization shaped the U. S
To describe how industrialization and capitalization shaped the U.S. economy
To identify the inventions that enhanced people’s lives and helped fuel the economy’s growth
To explain how improved transportation and communication helped link America’s regions and made them interdependent
Objectives

15. How did Specialization, Market Revolution, and Capitalism work together to spur industrialization?