APUSH: MR. DORSEY
NAME:
ASSIGNMENT: MARKET REVOLUTION MAP
Directions:
Part A – Essential Question:
LEARNING TARGET: How did innovations (communication, transportation, agricultural, industrial,
etc.) lead to shifts in the nature of agriculture and manufacturing, as well as, regional economic
specialization that shaped settlement patterns and the economy? How did this extend and connect
markets and production leading what would be known as the “Market Revolution.”
1. On the attached map, create a visual representation with annotations that uses key details for
each the 3 regions (North, South & West) that will support the Learning Target. Remember
“support” will include showing cause and/or effect, and how the economies became linked.
a. Transportation
i. Roads, Canals, railroad
b. Communication
i. Telegraph
c. Agricultural
i. Steel Plow, Mechanical Reaper, Cotton Gin
d. Industrial
i. Samuel Slater/Textile Mill, Lowell Mill, Interchangeable Parts
AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION:
When viewed across the span of the 20th century, the effect that mechanization has had on farm productivity—
and on society itself—is profound. At the end of the 19th century it took, for example, 35 to 40 hours of planting and
harvesting labor to produce 100 bushels of corn. A hundred years later producing the same amount of corn took only 2
hours and 45 minutes—and the farmers could ride in air-conditioned comfort, listening to music while they worked. And as
fewer and fewer workers were needed on farms, much of the developed world has experienced a sea-change shift from
rural to metropolitan living.
Throughout most of its long history, agriculture—particularly the growing of crops—was a matter of human sweat
and draft animal labor. Oxen, horses, and mules pulled plows to prepare the soil for seed and hauled wagons filled with
the harvest—up to 20 percent of which went to feed the animals themselves. The rest of the chores required
backbreaking manual labor: planting the seed; tilling, or cultivating, to keep down weeds; and ultimately reaping the
harvest, itself a complex and arduous task of cutting, collecting, bundling, threshing, and loading. From early on people
with an inventive flair—perhaps deserving the title of the first engineers—developed tools to ease farming burdens. Still,
even as late as the 19th century, farming and hard labor remained virtually synonymous, and productivity hadn't shifted
much across the centuries.
Improvements such as the steel plow (from the wooden plow) and Mechanical Reaper also revolutionized farming
allowing for greater crop yields by letting a single farmer work a larger crop.
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Part B -- Short Answer:
Use the image and your knowledge of U.S. History to answer
parts (a), (b), and (c).
a) Select ONE of the following and explain how the
image connects that to a particular part of the Market
Revolution.
• Transportation
• Western Expansion
• Industrialization
b) Explain ONE specific cause for the emergence of a
Market Revolution.
c) Explain ONE specific consequence of the emergence
of a Market Revolution.
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