The Market Revolution: A Radical Change In Manual Labour System

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The market revolution was a radical change in manual labour system that started in the South and eventually in the North form 1793 to1909. The need to exchange product's and services began to become scarce because of improvements in transportation, communication, and industry. But, their was a growth of large scale manufacturing. The U.S. was now producing more produts. So, they also depended less on imports.1

Market revolution occured in the U.S. when Northern families not only raised animals and grew crops to surive. They now began to sell their excess crops and animals and this was beginning to lead to a market-base system. In the South, planations also began a market-based system because the cotton they made was sent to the North to be

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