APUSH - The Market Revolution

Which industry dominated the American west in the early-mid 1800s?

• Manufacturing

• Service industries

• Shipping

• Farming and ranching

Which new technological innovation made immigration to America cheaper and faster?

• Railroads

• Transoceanic steamships

• Clipper ships

• McCormick Reaper

The change from workshops to factories and large-scale manufacturing and urbanization is known as

• the American Revolution

• the Industrial Revolution

• the Glorious Revolution

• the Great Awakening

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

• Eli Whitney

• Thomas Edison

• Bill Gates

• Andrew Jackson

What is the significance of the cotton gin?

• Cotton became the number one cash crop of the south.

• America experienced a huge growth in wealth.

• The dependence on slavery was renewed.

• All of these responses are correct.

What was the impact of Samuel Morse's telegraph on American society?

• Quicker communication

• More productive businesses and industry

• Easier access to news and stories of national interest

• All of these responses are correct

Which invention transformed agriculture in the west into a potentially profitable endeavor?

• McCormick Reaper

• Telegraph

• Cotton gin

• the printing press

The National Road was also known as

• the King's Highway

• the Turnpike

• Cumberland Road

• Eerie Canal

Prior to the American Civil War, which new form of transportation increased the population in the American west?

• Railroads

• Steamboats

• Turnpikes

• Nikes

This important piece of infrastructure, completed in1825, linked New York State to farms in the Midwest, greatly reducing the cost of transportation and accelerating urbanization and industrialization

• National Highway

• Steamboats

• Eerie Canal

• Railroads