The Road To Market Revolution In The Nineteenth-Century

Road of Opportunities The road to market revolution changed the way American farmers were able to transport and sell their consumer good products. This was a movement of opportunities and advancement in technology. Leaving behind the old ways of transportation and creating an accessible way to transport and communicate between the states and the Atlantic coast. Also, brought a large migration of people to the west in look for these opportunities and opened new opportunities to women into the labor force of factories.
The seventeenth-century southern farmers used to sell the products produced by slaves to the international market. Also, drawn into the Britain Empire of commercialization and control. As more and more Americans migrate to the

The steamboat, the canal, the railroad, and telegraph opened new economic opportunities for the country leaving economic struggles behind. It also brought new opportunities for transportation making things easier for farmers, and linked farmers to better horizons in marketing to sell their products. For instance; the steamboat experimented by Robert Fulton improved the transportation in the waters increasing speed and reducing the cost of commerce. The ship was first navigated in the waters of the Hudson River in New York. This invention made transportation against current more efficient in the Atlantic Ocean. Then, after completion of the Erin Canal, it allowed people to transport their goods between cities such as New York and Great Lakes faster than ever before. The canal made New York a competitive place of network for commercial interest. It also connected the Atlantic states with Ohio and Mississippi. The canal open ways of transportation in the waters; however; in order to made transportation faster on the road, the invention of the railroad made it easier for people to find better opportunities to settle in the west. Also, the invention of the telegraph by Samuel F.B. Morse opened a faster network of communication through the country. Initially, the use of the telegraph was used for businesses, like newspapers, and not for people. This new way of communication made businesses a way to exchange prices or

Other small group of farmers brought their slaves with them migrating to the South to stablish their Cotton fields in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Also, another way of commerce existed deep in the South, the necessity of more slaves were needed to work the cotton fields so around one million of slaves were shifted from older slaves states to deeper South. Since cotton was produced in the South thanks to the help of slaves and then sent to the west were opportunities in business and technology were rising, most of slaves were in need and of course working long hours on the fields to the demand of the