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The Market Revolution/ Manifest Destiny. Capitalism Market Revolution Telegraph John Deere Cyrus McCormick Manifest Destiny Mormons Joseph Smith Brigham Young. Market Revolution. 1830s People bought and sold goods rather than making their own
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The Market Revolution/ Manifest Destiny • Capitalism • Market Revolution • Telegraph • John Deere • Cyrus McCormick • Manifest Destiny • Mormons • Joseph Smith • Brigham Young
Market Revolution • 1830s • People bought and sold goods rather than making their own • Many Americans switched from being self-sufficient to specializing in one or two cash crops
Capitalism • Private businesses and individual control the means of production and use them to make a profit
Innovations • Telegraph – Samuel Morse • Enabled people to better communicate over long distances • Steam engine • Powered riverboats that could go both up and down rivers • Emergence of the railroad
Progress • South was still agricultural • Some chose to stay that way • Others had all of their money trapped in their crops and slaves • People moving to mid-west began to discover fertile soil for growing crops • Needed new supplies
John Deere • Created first steel plow 1837 • Allowed farmers to plow with horses instead of oxen
Cyrus McCormick • Created the mechanical reaper • Allowed crops to be harvested faster
Manifest Destiny • 1845 • United States Magazine and Democratic Review • Encouraged people to go West and populate the entire continent • Believed that populating the continent was “allotted by Providence” • Justified war and threats of war to take territory
M.D. cont. • Americans believed that they should spread freedom and democracy • Came by wagon train • Santa Fe • Oregon
M.D. cont. • Moved West because of: • Economic problems • Abundance of land • New markets to sell to • Expanded trade to China and Japan
Mormons • Led by Joseph Smith • Established LDS in NY in 1830 • Moved to Illinois in 1839 • Grew to about 20,000 people • People in IL printed protests about polygamy in papers • Smith broke the printing press • Murdered by anti-Mormon group
Mormons cont. • Smith was succeeded by Brigham Young • Moved Mormons to edge of the Great Salt Lake in Utah • 1847 • Awarded land for families • Shared timberland and water • Created a large community • Salt Lake City