Chapter 9 Expanding Markets and Moving West

Ch. 9 Essential Question: Why did the United States expand?

Ch. 9.1 The Market Revolution
Section Objectives:
1. Describe how industrialization and capitalism impacted the U.S. economy.

2. Identify the inventions that enhanced people’s lives and helped fuel the country’s economic growth.

3. Explain how improved transportation and communication systems helped link America’s regions and make
them interdependent.

Ch. 9.1 The Market Revolution

-Who was Samuel F.B. Morse?
1. U.S. Markets Expand
-What was the market revolution?
-What is specialization?
A. The Entrepreneurial Spirit
-What is capitalism?
-What is an entrepreneur?
-What role did entrepreneurs play in fueling the nation’s economy?
B. New Inventions
-What did Charles Goodyear invent? Why was it important?
-What invention created faster production of clothing? Who invented it? How was it improved?
Who improved it?
C. Impact on Household Economy
-How did the market revolution impact consumers (people buying goods)?

2. The Economic Revolution

-How did inventions impact consumers?
A. Impact on Communication
-What was the telegraph?
-How did the invention of the telegraph enhance the nation’s business activities?
B. Impact on Transportation
-In what ways did Americans improve their transportations systems?
C. Emergence of Railroads
-Why did people turn to railroads to transport goods?

3. New Markets Link Regions

A. Southern Agriculture
-Why did the South remain largely agricultural throughout the early and mid-1800s?
B. Northeast Shipping and Manufacturing
-What factors helped the Northeast to become a center of commerce (trade)?
C. Midwest Farming
-Who was John Deere? What did his inventions do?
-Who was Cyrus McCormick? What did his invention do?