Market Revolutom Flashcards
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What was the Market Revolution?
Revolution in transportation, farming, and production of goods
How was the Market Revolution impactful on transportation?
Increase use of canals, roads, and railroads such as the Erie Canal and Cumberland Road
How was the Market Revolution impactful on agriculture?
Switch from subsistence to cash-crop farming
Goods were produced OUTSIDE the war
What does Antebellum America mean?
Prior to the Civil War
What were some transportation innovation during Market Revolution?
Steamboat by Robert Fulton
What were agricultural improvements during the Market Revolution?
- Cotton Gin
- Steel Plow
- McCormick Reaper - increase harvesting efficiency
What were some technological innovations during the Market Revolution?
Telegraph
Interchangeable Parts
What were government actions during the Market Revolution?
NY paid for Erie Canal : Intratstate
Federal Gov paid for Cumberland Road: Interstate
How did the nation become more linked together during the Market Revolution?
Midwest: Corn, Cattle, Pigs
South: Cotton
North: Manufactured Goods
What new business practices arose during the Market Revolution?
- Corporations
- Selling of stocks
What type of factories mostly arose during the Market Revolution?
Textile Mills located near water
Where were most of the newly produced manufactured goods shipped during the Market Revolution?
Distant Markets
What was a specific type of factory system that arose during the Market Revolution?
Lowell Factory
Who would work at Lowell and what was life like during the Market Revolution?
Young women ( early 20s)
- Very strict with curfews and boarding rooms
What were the impacts of the Market Revolution and manufacturing?
- Growing middle class
- Increase in standard of living
- Emergence of business elite and unequal distribution of wealth
How were gender roles changed by Marketing Revolution?
- Poor families moved to factories
- Children worked at factories
- Unmarried women worked in factories
What was a continuity in gender roles despite the market Revolution?
Married, middle-class women were not expected to work because of the Cult of Domesticity
When was the Market Revolution?
Between 1815-1848
