Section Objectives

After you have completed this section, you will be able to:

1. Evaluate the national and global developments in technology, communication, and commerce that precipitated profound changes in the economy, politics, social relations and regional identities.
2. Describe the effects of the market revolution on American regional and national identity in the first half of the nineteenth century.
3. Explain how new technological developments helped to shape new labor and consumption patterns in each region.
4. Identify the emergence of separate economic agendas in the Northeast, the South, and the West.
5. Explain how the separate economic agendas impacted political affiliations and cultural identity in these regions.
6. Analyze the causes and effects of large scale migrations to and within North America.

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