The Market revolution is a transformation that occurred in America during the 19th century, marking the most significant change in American communities. It was not only a time of profound political change but a great economic and technological innovation. The market revolution was a great era for the growth of America. It all started with Eli Whitney and his 1790 invention of the cotton gin, which made it possible for cotton fibers to be separated from cotton seeds automatically, in turn growing cotton production rates from one pound to fifth pounds, the invention caused the majority of planters to switch to cotton production. This proved beneficial to the Southern economy due to the amazing profit produced by the cotton industry's low cost of production. Therefore, …show more content…
Meanwhile, railroads and the telegraph helped to connect economically isolated populations. The improvement of the transportation sector made it easy for Americans to travel faster and most efficiently, the transportation system favored rapid transfer of goods. Work shifted from domestic production to large-scale production in large markets. Thousands of miles of roads and canals, most funded by private developers and state governments like Dewitt Clinton the New York state governor, enabled manufacturers, craftsmen that had formerly operated small shops thought about hiring more employees in order to increase sales, and farmers that had formerly planted a variety of crops in order to attain self-sufficiency now focused their efforts on generating surpluses that could maximize their cash returns. While the North constructed canals to facilitate trade with the West, the South remained comparatively isolated. Women shifted from working at homes to finding jobs in factories. Before the Marketing Revolution, women had a very limited role in society. They were in responsible of the
Farmers’ incomes were low, and in order to make a profit on what they produced, they begun to expand the regions in which they sold their products in. This was facilitated through the railroads, by which through a series of grants from the government as...
At the same time, the local agricultural economy was experiencing a deep economic depression due to the severe droughs that had occured throughout the past decade. The loss of crops cut out the average farmers'/planters' main food source as well a...
That being said, women were extremely limited in their role in society. First of all, women were expected to be homemakers. By homemaker, I mean the women w... ... middle of paper ... ...ay."
The reason why slavery spread into the cotton kingdom after revolution is because the tobacco income plummeted as white setters from Virginia and Carolinas forcing the original Native Americans inhabitants farther and farther west where they established plantations. The wide spread use of the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, made these cotton plantations more efficient and profitable. Around 1820, slavery was concentrated in tobacco growing areas of Virginia, Kentucky along coastal region of South Carolina and Northern Georgia and in 1860s it spread deep in the South (Alabama, Texas, Louisiana) following the spread of cotton.
The farmers were accustomed to a daily routine. Their activities revolved around farming. The farmers used traditional methods that were created by their ancestors. Many of the traditions of small villages were abandoned and they were introduced to new things. This helped the villages to become more advanced. Abandoning traditions allowed the small villages also become familiar to new technology. New features were introduced to Britain, such as the cultivation of turnips and potatoes. Two of the contributors to agriculture were Jethro Tull and Lord Towenshend. Those men made the importance of root crops important to agriculture. In addition to the innovations helping villages, they could also hurt them. These changes were very complex for the farmers. Learning new techniques could be confusing and could also destroy their crops, which would definitely hurt the farmers.
The market revolution was a time of change, liberation, growth, and of course American ingenuity. This new kind of revolution brought about many changes in the lives of Americans everywhere. New technology from the steamboat to the telegraph connected the country in a new way. The emergence of factories (and the factory system) brought the growth of commerce, specialization of products, and many jobs to a rapidly growing nation. The market revolution benefited our country by impacting the social groups of the slaves and the middle class, generating a change in laws of the economy and warranting the redefining of freedom.
Before the invention of the cotton gin, the cotton process had to be done by manual labor. Which meant, men and women slaves had to spend hours picking the seeds out of the cotton by hand and then spinning the cotton into fabric. “To sift out a single ‘point’ of cotto...
In 1850 society the new republic altered the role of women by making the differences of men and women in society more noticeable, by giving them a higher status, and allowing them to demand more rights and think for freely.
The Roaring Twenties approached and the citizens in Colorado were facing rough times. In 1920, many people such as farm owners, manufacturers, and even miners were having a hard time making a living due to an economic downfall. The farmers especially, where facing the toughest of times. The price of various farm-grown goods like wheat, sugar beets, and even cattle was dropping because their goods were no longer needed by the public. Wheat had dropped in price from $2.02 in 1918 to $0.76 by the time 1921 came around. Sadly, the land that they were using to grow wheat became dry and many farmers had to learn to grow through “dryland farming” which became very popular in the eastern plains from 1910 to 1930 (Hard Times: 1920 - 1940). Apple trees began to die due to the lack of desire for apples, poor land, and decreased prices. Over the course of World War I, the prices of farm goods began to increase slowly. Farmers were not the only one facing this economic hardship while others in big cities were enjoying the Roaring Twenties.
First, farmers began going bankrupt due to over producing their product. “countries returned to growing their own grain. The expansion had led to overproduction and now there was too much for markets to handle. Farmers found it more and more difficult to sell their produce.”(Hardcastle). Do to slow marketing businesses over 600,000 farmers had become bankrupt at this time because “large surpluses were accompanied by calling prices at a time when Americans
The Market Revolution transformed various aspects of American society because of the development of new inventions, ideologies, and lifestyles. From 1790 to 1840, the improvement of national transportation methods, the commercialization of the American market system, and the beginning of industrialization fostered the Market Revolution and affected the country economically, socially, and even religiously. The Industrial Revolution occurred in Western European countries such as France, England and Germany beginning in 1760 and completely altered the European market, workplace, and society by the time the inventions and technological ideas diffused into the United States. In 1791, Alexander Hamilton expressed “the necessity of enlarging the sphere of our domestic commerce”1 and therefore supported and funded American industries. With the help of the government, the Market Revolution initiated the expansion of the marketplace due to the connection of distant communities, such as western cities with seaboard cities, for the first time due to the advances in infrastructure. This would cause the shift away from local and regional markets to national and international markets abroad. The Market Revolution changed aspects of American life such as labor, transportation, commercialization, family life, new values produced by evangelical religion, sentimentalism, and transcendentalism, and the birth of the new middle class from 1790 to 1840.
In document 4, a chart is shown of the U.S unemployment rates from 1926-1945. This chart shows how as farmer unemployment got worse, so did the non-farmers. In the 1920’s workers who worked in the city had more opportunities to find jobs unlike farmers who kept a more basic, traditional lifestyle. If farmers who produce food for factories couldn’t anymore, that meant workers would be laid off in the city and factories would shut down forever.
Agriculture has changed dramatically, especially since the end of World War II. Food and fibre productivity rose due to new technologies, mechanization, increased chemical use, specialization and government policies that favoured maximizing production. These changes allowed fewer farmers with reduced labour demands to produce the majority of the food and fibre.
seasons and crop rotation, in order to secure work they had to reserve land with