4.5 APUSH ~ Market Revolution: Industrialization (Heimler)

What is the Market Revolution?

• The invention of interchangeable parts

• The construction of the National Road

• The establishment of the factory system in the 1820s

• The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms

Which transportation innovation allowed goods to be transported both downstream and upstream?

• Steamboats

• Canals

• Railroads

• The construction of the National Road

What technology revolutionized industrial production?

• Canals

• Steamboats

• The invention of interchangeable parts

• The construction of the National Road

What did Eli Whitney's cotton gin do?

• Established the factory system

• Accelerated the separation of cotton seeds from fibers

• Increased trade efficiency

• Revolutionized river transportation

What type of farming gave way to commercial farming?

• Subsistence farming

• International farming

• Cash crop farming

• Stress farming

What were the focus of cash crops like cotton and tobacco?

• Linking American farms to international industry

• Trade in local and international markets

• Revolutionizing industrial production

• Improving transportation between regions

What was the primary mode of transportation by the 1820s and 30s?

• The construction of the National Road

• Canals

• Steamboats

• Railroads

What did the Erie Canal in New York connect?

• Railroads with canals

• Eastern manufacturing centers with western farms

• Northern industries with western and southern farms

• River transportation with trade efficiency

What did the linking of northern industries with western and southern farms coordinate?

• The establishment of the factory system

• The construction of the National Road

• The invention of interchangeable parts

• Regional economies into a national one by linking facilitating trade and transportation.

What marked America's transition from an agrarian society to a capitalist society?

• The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms

• The establishment of the factory system in the 1820s

• The construction of the National Road

• The invention of interchangeable parts