1. Extraordinary Economic Changes
Market Revolution
Extraordinary Economic Changes
Culture
Economic
Transportation
Expanding Credit & Financing
Reworking of Relationships
Roads
Canals
Cash Crop Agriculture
Railroads
Work
Home
Industrial Growth
Family
Community
Factories
Decline of Household As Locus of Production Led Directly to a Growing Impersonality in the Economic Realm
Lowell System
Public Sphere of Politics, Business, & Market
Men
Separate Spheres
Private Sphere of Domestic Duties & Child Rearing
Women
Cult of Domesticity

2. Economic and Cultural Changes in Social class distinction
MARKET REVOLUTION
The dramatic increase between ~1810 and ~1860 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions. It reflected the increased output of farms and factories, the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants, and the creation of a transportation network of roads, canals, and railroads.
Economic and Cultural Changes in
West
South
North
Growth of
Growth of
Growth of
Industry/
Factory System
Population
Cotton Production
Led to
Led to
Led to
growth of
opening new
growth of
opening new
growth of
opening new
towns
land
slavery
land
cities
workers
extension of
more rigid
changes in
Democracy
Social class distinction
Nature of work
such as
behaviors
conditions
skills
11.5