MARKET
REVOLUTION
SWBAT: EXPLAIN HOW INNOVATIONS
IN TECHNOLOGY, AGRICULTURE, &
COMMERCE ACCELERATED THE
AMERICAN ECONOMY
DO NOW
• With your partner, define “market
revolution”.
Travel
times
from NYC
in 1800 &
1830:
CONNECTIONS TO THEMES
• Analyze “America’s Market Revolution:
Cause & Effect” chart with your group
members.
• Complete the Chart Analysis
Questions as a group.
WRAP UP
• Each group will be assigned one
question they are responsible for
sharing their response to.
• SHARE OUT!
RISE OF
SECTIONALISM
SWBAT: EXPLAIN HOW ECONOMIC
FACTORS CONTRIBUTED TO
SECTIONALISM
DO NOW
• Complete the practice multiple
choice question on your own.
CRASH COURSE:
MARKET REVOLUTION
• While watching the video, write down
3 new pieces of information you learn
regarding the Market Revolution. (15 min)
SECTIONALISM
• Sectionalism- a person’s loyalty is to
the state or region rather than the
nation as a whole
• 1830s and 1840s: sectionalism
increased in the U.S.
NORTH
A. Growth of Industry with Industrial Revolution
1) Why in New England?
a) New England's soil is rocky, bad for
farming
b) New England has rivers & harbors
c) Merchants had money to invest
2) What type of factories?
a) Textile – for making fabric
3) Examples:
a) Samuel Slater copied the British design
& built his own cotton mill
b) Lowell's Mills
B. Urbanization – Growth of Cities
=
SOUTH
A. Growth of Agriculture  “King Cotton”
1) Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin – 1 person
now could do the work of 50 people
2) Cotton production soars from 3,000 to
300,000 bales
B. Southern Economy Relied on Slavery
WEST
A. Settlers Begin Moving West
1) Methods of Transportation
a) Conestoga Wagon
b) Roads
c) Steamboats
d) Canals
2) Westerners grew food crops
3) Over cultivated land in South 
plantations relocated west
The Clermont
WRAP UP
1. What was each regions’ economy based on
(specialization)?
EAST  Industrial
SOUTH  Cotton & Slavery
WEST  The Nation’s Breadbasket
2. How might the differences between the
North, South, and West contribute to the
Civil War?
STOP, DROP, & THINK…
Does sectionalism still exist in the U.S.?