The Market Revolution

​ (a)   : economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves

​ (b)   : economic system in which individuals and businesses control the means of production

​ (c)   : business people

​ (d)   : work stoppage by workers

• market revolution
• free enterprise
• entrepreneurs
• strike

Great economic changes happening in the 19th century in the US included people buying and selling goods rather than making them. This was called the ​ (a)  

• market revolution
• agricultural revolution
• computer revolution
• transportation revolution

In a ​ (a)   system, private businesses and individuals control production.

• free enterprise
• communistic
• socialist
• command market

Important people that invested in new industries are ​ (a)  

• entrepreneurs
• Congress members
• Communists
• soldiers

One effect of the new industries is that they ​ (a)   goods that made ​ (b)   more ​ (c)   for ​ (d)   people

• produced
• life
• comfortable
• ordinary
• destroyed
• difficult
• wealthy
• computers

What did the new inventions improve?

• manufacturing

• transportation

• communication

• military

• government

​ (a)   invented the ​ (b)   which could sent messages by wire in a few ​ (c)  

• Samuel F.B. Morse
• telegraph
• seconds
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• days
• months
• phonograph

What helped improve transportation? These improvements linked the various regions.

• steamboats

• canals

• railroads

• telegraph

• government

The regions became dependent on each other because of the goods produced by the other regions.

The ​ (a)   became a center of commerce and manufacturing

The ​ (b)   would become a center for crops being carried to markets in the East

The ​ (c)   remained an agricultural region.

• North
• Midwest
• South

Which inventions made farming easier?

• steel plow

• reaper

• canal

• railroad

• telegraph