Terms & Names
In the early 19th century, entrepreneurs transformed the American economy by driving the
Market Revolution
This types of machines were invented to make things like shirts and blankets.
Textile Machines
One great invention that reduced the cost of repairs was parts that were...
Interchangeable
This is a nickname given for the dominant export of the time.
This kind of economy was the result of the market revolution.
Market-Driven
This invention powered trains for a long time and increased the US reach of business.
Steam Engine
These are mainland travel ways that connect places with no water between
Roads & Railroads
This tool invented by Eli Whitney was instrumental in the processing of crops to use for textiles.
The cotton gin
The process of dealing economically with countries all over the world.
International Commerce.
This kind agricultural tool used a set of vibrating blades to harvest grains.
Mechanical Reaper
This travel way used preexisting bodies of water, and a channel to connect them.
Canals
This man's interchangeable parts and cotton gin transformed America
Eli Whitney
During this period of time, local small business was being shifted to...
This invention was instrumental in upgrading the process of planting crops.
Steel Plow
The process by which all forms of travel ways were prescribed.
Legislation
The reliance of the south on cotton and slave labor, and the threat of the abolition of slavery would eventually lead to...
The Civil War
This businessman organized production systems and revolutionized the textile industry.
Francis Cabot Lowell
This early form of the phone made it possible to contact people from long distances.
The telegraph
This travel way linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
The Erie Canal
The south relied on the north for produced goods, while the north relied on the south for raw materials. This type of relationship is called...
Economic Interdependence