What is the Market Revolution? Identify three early 19th century technological innovations, History homework help

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  1. Question #1:What is the Market Revolution? Identify three early 19th century technological innovations in the field of transportation and/or communication that, to paraphrase Alexis de Tocqueville, contributed to Americans ‘annihilating time and space’. How does this all relate to the Erie Canal? How did the Erie Canal affect New York’s economy, and how do canal locks function?
  2. Question #2:How did Andrew Jackson differ from previous American presidents in background and what affect did Jackson and his supporters have on the nature of American politics and political parties? Be sure to incorporate your knowledge of how Jackson addressed the era’s controversies, especially those surrounding the 2nd Bank of the United States, the use of tariffs, and the presence of “civilized” Indians in the American South.
  3. Question #3:In the Old South family, gender, religion and values combined to create a distinct slave culture. How did slavery shape social and economic relations in the Old South? What were the legal and material constraints of slaves’ lives and work? What were the major forms of resistance to slavery?
  4. Question #4:What were the major movements and goals of antebellum reform? What were the different varieties of abolitionism? How did abolitionism challenge barriers to racial equality and free speech? What was the source of the antebellum women’s rights movement and its significance?
  5. Question #5:Why did the expansion of slavery become the most divisive political issue in the 1840s and 1850s? What combinations of issues and events fueled the creation of the Republican Party in the 1850s? What were the final steps on the road to secession?
  6. Question #6:Why is the Civil War considered the first modern war? How did a war to preserve the Union become a war to end slavery? How did the Civil War transform the national economy and create a stronger nation-state? How did the war effort affect the society and economy of the Confederacy? What were the military and political turning points of the war?
  7. Question #7:What visions of freedom did the former slaves and slaveholders pursue in the postwar South? What were the competing visions of Reconstruction? What were the main factors, in both the North and the South, for the abandonment of Reconstruction?