New Labor
Labor began to shift from home-based labor to what form of labor?
Merchants and businessmen greatly benefited from this travel system, as they can transport both goods and people to further locations.
What is the railroad system?
This crop was making big money for the South, while the North had moved on.
What is cotton!
This machine was made by Eli Whitney and allowed for the quick separation of cotton fibers from their seeds.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This early typewriter was used to spread instant communication all across the nation.
What is the telegraph?
How was labor organized in order to maximize profitability and output?
What is centrally organized factory labor?
Reducing the cost of cargo shipments, it was a more reliable water transportation that grew the economy, and were also used for military and exploring purposes.
What are steamboats?
What allowed the North to have a more diverse economy compared to the South?
More factories.
This machine allowed for grain seeds to be separated by their stalks and husks by beating the plant.
This new invention printed texts and images using paper and ink.
What is the Printing Press?
These people were the main workers in the Lowell Mills.
Though many things benefited from new advantageous transportation, there was also the increased migration by people in the United States to a more significant region of the country for better economical opportunities.
What is Slave-Based Agricultural Economy?
Cyrus McCormick made this invention that quintupled the efficiency of wheat farming.
What is the Mechanical Mower-Reaper?
This new invention worked with the telegraph in order to transmit orders using dots and dashes.
What is Morse Code?
This civil rights case established the legality of labor unions and the right of union workers to strike if an employer hired non-union workers, ultimately establishing that labor unions were legal.
What is Commonwealth vs Hunt.
The main power source for both trains and steamboats, which began through Boulton and Watt's patent.
Steam Engine
Why could the North industrialize so fast?
This man invented the horse-pulled steel plow to replace the typical oxen-driven wooden plows.
Communication was also made possible and more efficient at larger distances overland due to what?
What was the average wage of a common factory worker in the Market Revolution?
What are 40-50 cents per day?
Name one of the main railroads during the time of the Market Revolution
The New York Railroad
The Erie Railroad
The Boston Railroad
How many times faster could the North make cotton and woolen textiles compared to the South?
What system did Eli Whitney make that made the production of things such as the musket easier?
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