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What were the causes and effects of the Market Revolution on commerce and American society?
What were the causes and effects of the Market Revolution on commerce and American society?
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"The Market Revolution"
"The Market Revolution"
What was the most significant technological advancement in the early nineteenth century, and why is it more important than the others?
How and why did slavery disappear in the North?
What major migrations reshaped American life?
How did economic change influence gender roles?
How did workers organize to improve their position?
Notes and Discussion
Notes and Discussion
In the early years of the nineteenth century, Americans’ endless commercial ambition—what one Baltimore paper in 1815 called an “almost universal ambition to get forward”—remade the nation. Between the Revolution and the Civil War, an old subsistence world died and a new more-commercial nation was born (source).
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"Causation: Market Revolution"
"Argumentation: 'The Market Revolution ...'"
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Rank the factors to assess their relative importance to the development of the Industrial Revolution.
Write a thesis statement in response to the prompt above the PDF.
Prompt: Discuss the causes of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Industrial Development and the Market Revolution.pdfSkills Packet
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