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The Social Order
The Market Revolution
Free Labor
The American System of Manufactures
Transportation Revolution
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What was importance placed on??
Rank and Status
100
What was the market revolution?
Rapid improvements in transportation, commercialization and industrialization
100
What was the notion of free labor caused by?
industrializing economy
100
Who titled this system?
The British
100
The transportation revolution meant that people could access what?
market that were farther away
200
What did the artisans owe most of their success to??
The economic change brought by the transportation revolution
200
__________ replaced household self-suffiency and barter with the production of goods for cash
commercialization
200
Who led some of the first strikes?
Women workers
200
What is the American System of Manufacturers?
American's pioneering the subject of developing single parts
200
Who only funded interstate projects?
federal government
300
Men were the boss and had all ______ and _______ rights.
legal and voting
300
Where did business in the North mainly take place?
on the coast through merchants
300
What no longer existed between workers and owners?
community of interest
300
________ production became normal
standardized
300
how much did the national road cost and where was it connected?
$7 million dollars and connect from the east to the west
400
how did the market revolution change the social order?
By recreating the middle class with distinctive habits and beliefs.
400
Where is capital?
Wealth in the form of money
400
People were successful in getting ___ hours a day
10
400
Goods were what?
uniform and available to everyone
400
Robert Fulton did what?
demonstrated the feasibility of steamboats in 1807
500
What is sentimentalism??
A mark of the middle class status. Where widows were to wear morning clothes.
500
What did banks deal with?
The accumulation of capital from both international and local investments.
500
What was free labor?
the labor of workers who are not member of trade unions
500
Who built the ships and who furnished them?
the foundries, engine factories and shipyards built the ships and the traditional artisans furnished the ships.
500
How many miles did the railroads grow in 1860?
31,000