1. What inventions and technologies have made your life more enjoyable? Why? Journal Entry for 1-25-2010

2. U.S. Markets Expand By mid-1800s, Northeast was more industrialized Workers spent money on goods made by other workers (instead of ?) Farmers specialized in one/two cash crops Market revolution Ppl bought and sold goods rather than making themselves Chapter 9, Section 1

3. Entrepreneurial Spirit Capitalism: individuals and private businesses control the means of production (Land, machines, factories) and earn profit from them Entrepreneurs invested money in industries Chapter 9, Section 1

4. New Inventions Charles Goodyear: vulcanized rubber Elias Howe: sewing machine I.M.Singer: foot treadle Samuel F.B. Morse: telegraph John Deere: Steel plow Cyrus McCormick: mechanical reaper Chapter 9, Section 1

5. Economic Revolution Telegraph used to communicate cross-country Businesses, railroads, individuals used it Steamships and canals improved transportation Speed from one place to another and connected places Railroads Speed Ran year-round, reached more areas than canals/rivers Chapter 9, Section 1

6. New Markets Link Regions Regions specialized in products S: cotton to NE and England W: grain and livestock to E and Europe E: manufactured textiles and machinery S agriculture: money in land and slaves No capital for industrialization NE shipping and manufacturing: increased manufacturing, cities (NYC) centers of trade Midwest: farming made easier w/ inventions of steel plow and reaper. Chapter 9, Section 1

7. Frontier Draws Settlers Manifest destiny Americans believed the country was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans Frontier offers a new start Escape personal economic problems Opportunity to own land New business opportunities Chapter 9 Section 2

8. Settlers and Native Americans Native Americans react to encroaching settlers Forced to move off land Assimilated Fought over land Oregon Trail Route from MO to OR traveled by groups of settlers in the early 1800s Chapter 9 Section 2