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The Market Revolution

The Market Revolution. Homework: 139-143. Reading. A French View of the Mississippi Memorial of the Cherokee Nation Andrew Jackson on Removing the Indian 3 types of settlers Why Texas Declared its Independence Manifest Destiny Wagon Trains to Oregon. New Methods of Farming.

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The Market Revolution

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  1. The Market Revolution • Homework: 139-143

  2. Reading • A French View of the Mississippi • Memorial of the Cherokee Nation • Andrew Jackson on Removing the Indian • 3 types of settlers • Why Texas Declared its Independence • Manifest Destiny • Wagon Trains to Oregon

  3. New Methods of Farming • John Deere- Steel Plow (Heavy soil) • Cyrus McCormick- Mechanical Reaper (grains) • Specialization of Crops- one or two crops for sale

  4. Market Revolution • Buying and selling goods vs. producing • Growth of free enterprise • Entrepreneurs- “to undertake” Risk takers • Samuel Morse – Patents Telegraph • Steam Boat/Canals- against river currents • Railroads • Charles Goodyear- vulcanization of Rubber

  5. Workplace • Lowell Textile Mills • 12 hour work day • Women and Child Labor • Wage Cuts lead to Strike • Immigration from Ireland (Potato Famine) • National Trade Union and Common wealth vs. Hunt

  6. Summary Questions • Who was the inventor of the Telegraph? • Who invented the steel plow? • This was used to collect grains? • Charles Goodyear used this method of treating rubber? • When a farmer focuses on growing one or two crops for profit? • What is a business man who takes risks? • This was used to move up rivers against the current?

  7. Art- George Washington- Horatio Greenbough (1840)

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