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Market revolution |
The outcome of three interlaced developments wich include rapid improvements in transportation, commercialization, and industrialization. This was the most fundamental change American communities ever experienced. Pg #390 |
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Putting out system |
Production of goods in private homes under the supervision of a merchant who put out the raw materials, paid a certain sum per finished price, and sold the completed item to a distant market. Pg #392 |
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Cyrus Mccormick |
The most remarkable innovation was Cyrus Mccormicks reaper that was patented in 1834. Earlier harvesting depended in manpower alone but they could now use horse drawn reapers thanks to Mccormick. People felt the quicker production would help pay oof the reapers. Pg #395 |
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Lowell Mills |
Francis Cabot Lowell went to England and took schematics to build Mills that could compete with the British. They built a entire town with he Mills and named it after Francis Lowell. Pg #396 |
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Sentimentalism |
The individualistic competitiveness engendered by the market revolution caused members of the new middle class to place emphasis on sincerity and feeling. This was referred to as sentimentalism. Pg #408 |
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Transcendentalism |
Transcendentalism is a group of ideas in literature and philosophy that developed in the 1830s and '40s as a protest against the general state of culture and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard University and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School.Among transcendentalists' core beliefs was the belief in an ideal spirituality that "transcends" the physical and empirical and is realized only through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions. Pg #409 |
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Self reliance |
Individualism or self reliance was at the heart of the personal transformation required by the market revolution. Pg #410 |
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National raod |
Travel by roads was difficult and the roads themselves were poor, because the federal government only funded interstate projects. In 1808 the federal government made the national road. It cost $7 million, but connected the east to the west. Pg #386 |
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Erie canal |
The Erie canal was the most famous canal of the Era and was the brain child of new York governor DeWitt Clinton who envisioned a link between new York city and the great Lakes through the Hudson River and a cable stretching form Albany to Buffalo. Pg #387 |
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Transportation revolution |
This was the revolution that included the creation of many roads and canola sand forms of transportation. This new ease of transportation fueled economic growth by connecting people to distant markets. Pg #389 |
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Eli Whitney |
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. His creation of the cotton gin led to more cotton production in the north and more slave needed in the south to gather cotton. Pg #395 |
