Chapter 14Forging the National Economy
  • Sections 
    • Introduction
    • Reason 1: Transportation Improvements
    • Reason 2: Production Improvements
    • Outcomes: Change in Labor Structure and Home Structure
  • Built with  by Shivam Agrawal

Welcome to your Interactive Web Tour of Chapter 14

Learning Objectives

 Understand how the market revolution occurred: what factors led to this economic overhaul

 Understand the effects the market revolution had on society

Reason 1: Transportation Improvements


For further reading: 14.13 - "Highways and Steamboats", 14.14 - "Clintons Big Ditch in New York", 14.15 - "The Iron Horse", 14.16 - "Cables Clippers, and Pony Riders", and 14.17 - "The Transport Web Binds the Union"

Reason 2: Production Improvements


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Eli Whitney



For further reading: 14.7 - "Creeping Mechanization", 14.8 - "Whitney Ends the Fiber Famine", and 14.9 - "Marvels in Manufacturing"

Outcomes: Change in Labor Structure and Home Structure


For further reading: 14.10 - "Workers and Wage Slaves", 14.11 - "Women and the Economy", and 14.8 - "The Market Revolution"