The Market Revolution

Regional Specialization

Turnpikes

    -National Road  (1811)

Riverboats

     -Robert Fulton, Clermont  (1807)

     -Washington   (1817)

Canals

     -Erie Canal  (1825)

Railroads

     -Baltimore and Ohio RR

           -Peter Cooper

           -Tom Thumb  (1829)

     -Charleston and Hamburg RR  (1833)
 

Telegraph

     -Samuel Morse

Textile Mills

     -Samuel Slater

     -Richard Arkwright

     -Francis Cabot Lowell

           -Boston Associates

Industrialization

     -Specialization

     -Factory

     -Powered Machinery

Cotton

      -Sea Island Cotton

      -Green Seed Cotton

           -Eli Whitney

                 -Cotton Gin  (1793)  

       Riverboats

      
        Canals, 1840                        Lockport, NY
                                                    (Erie Canal)

  "Tom Thumb"                     "Atlantic"
         (1829)                              (1830)

       "Pioneer"                   "William Mason"
           (1836)                             (1856)

         
      Railroads 1850                          Railroads, 1860

         
         Textile Mill                       Eli Whitney's Patent
                                                  for Cotton Gin, 1793