The market revolution is a term used to describe the increase of the exchange of goods and services in market transaction. In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, the transportation system was limited. The great rivers west of the Appalachians could not connect with the western famers to eastern markets since they flowed north to south. The roads were poor, expensive to maintain and horse-drawn wagons had limited capacity. So how were the farmers supposed to turn a profit from their cash crops if they couldn’t transport them to eastern markets. The major forces that helped the “market revolution” progress as well as it did would be Transportation, Communication and Mass production. Transportation was a huge role in the market revolution
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The telegraph allowed people to send messages tapped in code across copper wires stretched over great distances. It allowed business people to stay in close contact, sped up communication of sales orders and pricing information and helped trains move more efficiently and safely while linking regions of the country. Samuel Colt (Inventor of the revolving pistol and Morse’s partner) and Morse ran an electrical cable from one ship in New York harbor to another ship. Six months later, Congress approved a grant of $30,000 to build a telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore. Construction went slowly, but by May 1844, twenty-two miles had been completed, just in time for news of the Whig national convention, meeting in Baltimore. This meeting was to be carried by train to Annapolis Junction and then transmitted by wire to dignitaries assembled in the chamber of the Supreme Court in …show more content…
In 1837 John Deere invented the steal plow that helped cultivate cash crops faster without horse/oxen labor. It was tougher then the wood plow and lasted longer. The reaper invented by Cyrus McCormick allowed one farmer to do the work of five hired hands and to shift from subsistence farming to growing cash crops. In 1793, a New Englander, Eli Whitney, invented a cotton gin that successfully separated the fibers of short-staple cotton from the seed. Quickly copied and improved upon by others, Whitney's invention removed a major obstacle to the westward spread of cotton cultivation. It thereby gave a new lease on life to plantation slavery and undermined the doubts of those who considered slavery economically outmoded. The sewing machine drastically reduced the time necessary to sew shoes and clothing which led to the mass production of clothing in factories and the reduction of clothing
The telegraph allowed people to send messages tapped in code across copper wires stretched over great distances. It allowed business people to stay in close contact, sped up communication of sales orders and pricing information and helped trains move more efficiently and safely while linking regions of the country. Samuel Colt (Inventor of the revolving pistol and Morse’s partner) and Morse ran an electrical cable from one ship in New York harbor to another ship. Six months later, Congress approved a grant of $30,000 to build a telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore. Construction went slowly, but by May 1844, twenty-two miles had been completed, just in time for news of the Whig national convention, meeting in Baltimore. This meeting was to be carried by train to Annapolis Junction and then transmitted by wire to dignitaries assembled in the chamber of the Supreme Court in …show more content…
In 1837 John Deere invented the steal plow that helped cultivate cash crops faster without horse/oxen labor. It was tougher then the wood plow and lasted longer. The reaper invented by Cyrus McCormick allowed one farmer to do the work of five hired hands and to shift from subsistence farming to growing cash crops. In 1793, a New Englander, Eli Whitney, invented a cotton gin that successfully separated the fibers of short-staple cotton from the seed. Quickly copied and improved upon by others, Whitney's invention removed a major obstacle to the westward spread of cotton cultivation. It thereby gave a new lease on life to plantation slavery and undermined the doubts of those who considered slavery economically outmoded. The sewing machine drastically reduced the time necessary to sew shoes and clothing which led to the mass production of clothing in factories and the reduction of clothing