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    The Market Revolution from 1815 to 1840 is the transition of American production for subsistence to commercial sales. Thus, goods were no longer produced for the purpose of feeding families, paying taxes, and providing for other essentials, but they were then produced for monetary profits. Factors Contributing to the Market Revolution and the Industrial Revolution: The extension of a national road from Virginia to Illinois permitted both farmers to settle Westward and to transport their goods more

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    A) The market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century occurred as a result of new developments in transportation and manufacturing. Labor changes as actories and mass production helped new industries develop as the textile industry grew—increasing the demand for cotton and cloth—and the steel industry grew—providing material for new machines—and new farm machines, such as the reaper invented by Cyrus McCormick, made farming faster. In the North, more people began working in the

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    The Market Revolution established tariffs, national bank, and internal improvements. Farmers were producing the best goods to other markets, and buy the products they could not grow or make themselves. People began to believe their role in the economy changed by the thought of to be self-sufficient farmers, which they believed they were associates in the national and international marketplace. The idea made them lean more to commercial and capitalist intentions and becoming consumers. The Market Revolution

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    the United States decided to increase in-state manufacturing. This caused the Market Revolution to occur resulting in new ways of communication, technology, and transportation, which significantly impacted many of the regions of the country. The Market Revolution impacted the Midwest and the South by new technology in farming and new transportation by roads and canals. The Midwest region was impacted by the Market Revolution because of the change in transportation in the form of roads and canals, and

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    The market revolution was a major milestone during the Antebellum Era. This revolution took the economy and flipped it upside down. It took the jobs that people normally did at their homes, and put them into more industrial and manufacturing factories. On the flip side of that, the Second Great Awakening was more of a religious movement of the Baptist and Methodist religions. This movement had a large impact on the women’s place in the world. The Antebellum Market Revolution gave a way for women

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    A kind of market revolution was also starting up during this pre war/wartime in the north. It was also something white southerners would fear. The market revolution was the process in which long distance commerce would start up and take over, contributed to by the transportation revolution with the creation of roads, railroads, canals, etc. This time was also a time of technological innovation and creation as well. The growth of cities is was allowed this kind of market revolution to occur, big

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    power of the Market Revolution The Market Revolution was a period of drastic change in the US, from 1793 to 1909. It changed the life of all Americans. The economy was the center from where political, social and cultural developments started to evolve. Industries grew a lot in the north-east and mass produced goods that were shipped abroad so there was a capital global understanding not just a national one. It lead to the the first kind of globalization in the US. Before the market revolution there were

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    By the 1830s and 1840s, the market revolution and westward expansion had profoundly affected all Americans’ lives, reinforcing older ideas of freedom and creating new ones. American freedom had long been linked with available land in the West. In this period was coined the phrase “manifest destiny,” referring to the divine mission of the United States to occupy all of North America and extend freedom, despite any costs to peoples and nations already there. But an old idea connecting freedom and a

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    The Market Revolution in the United States originated in the South and then in the north, which was a immense change in the system of how the laborers worked. The common trade started to become outdated due to the new discoveries of transportation. The North began to gain a more powerful economy as a result of the Market Revolution. The Market Revolution changed farming to become more large-scale farming with cash. The farmers would use the cash to buy other necessary items. Immigration and the growing

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    became outdated with new modes of transportation and other inventions. As a result, the north began to have a more powerful economy that started to challenge the economies of some mid-sized European cities of the time. These changes caused by the Market Revolution had significant effects on U.S. society, workers’ lives, and gender and family relations. The beginning of technological innovations in America included the steamboat, the train, better roads and canals, the telegraph, and interchangeable parts

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