Market Revolution Review

Americans began producing goods for ______ rather than personal use.

• sale

• storage

• display

• export

Transportation and technology improvements reshaped society.

• True

• False

Americans shifted to a market economy, which means producing for ______.

• sale

• fun

• family only

• government use

The Erie Canal (1825) linked the Great Lakes to the ________.

• Atlantic

• Pacific

• Mississippi River

• Gulf of Mexico

Which of the following made mountain travel safer and faster?

• Erie Canal

• National Road

• B&O Railroad

• Steamboats

Who launched steamboat travel in 1807?

• Robert Fulton

• John Stevens

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Eli Whitney

Who invented the telegraph?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

The first telegraph line was built between which two cities in 1843?

• New York and Boston

• Washington, D.C. and Baltimore

• Philadelphia and Chicago

• San Francisco and Los Angeles

Farmers sold crops in ______ markets, not just locally. (Fill in the blank)

• national

• private

• seasonal

• foreign

Which inventions increased productivity for farmers?

• McCormick Reaper and John Deere plow

• Steam engine and cotton gin

• Telephone and telegraph

• Light bulb and radio