Lagonda Agricultural Works Print: Features Reaper, 1830, Springfield, Ohio. The print is probably an advertisement for the reaper, aiming to promote it among farmers and to visually describe its form and function so that they want to use it for efficiency and greater gifts. First Voyage of Fulton's Steamboat to Albany Print: Depicts the 1807 voyage of Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, across the Hudson River. The possibility of upstream trade and fast transport is allowed. The audience nor the author is not specific, probably the general public, perhaps in a newspaper printed to inform about new transportation technology. Excerpt from P. B. Porter's speech on internal improvements: Porter is a United States Representative from New York, who gave a speech in 1810 to his audience in the House of Representatives. He touched on the idea that the geographic boundaries between East and West that provided distinct separations of character and interests would soon equate to the separation and disunity of the United States. Porter is promoting trade as the way to produce mutual dependence between the two sections. Excerpt from “Mormonism and the American Mainstream”: author, Donald Scott, professor of history, 2004. While informing the reader of the exclusivity and illegitimately concentrated power of the Mormons, Scott also describes Protestant America's perception of them as “anti-American” and “aliens”. Update on the Cumberland Road project, letter excerpt: from David Shriver, Jr., superintendent of Cumberland Road, to the Secretary of the Treasury in January 1812. The purpose of the letter was to provide an update on progress of the new road, while expressing the need for money to expand it in order to reap greater benefits, including greater connections and more job opportunities. Statistics from the Cotton Kingdom demonstrate the increasing demand for slave labor and cotton bales over the course of the Market Revolution, as a result of the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, due to the growing demand for cotton for textiles. Factory Tracts Extract 1845 - Depicts a young girl leaving her aunt's care after her mother falls ill to provide for her needs by joining the factory workforce. The public is probably the working public, it turns to the tyrannical employer. Outside Information/Specific Evidence: The steel plow and reaper became integral tools during the market revolution to facilitate farming in the Northwest. The Industrial Revolution created a large demand for cotton for textile production and, along with the invention of the cotton gin, prompted the rise of the Cotton Kingdom in the South, where growing wheat or corn was not possible. How do external documents and information support point 1? It is an advertisement for the reaper, a horse-drawn machine that increased the speed of harvesting and allowed the expansion of production in Western agriculture where the more economical cultivation of wheat and corn was not possible in the East. Document 6 shows the relationship between the growing need for cotton bales, to hold the cotton, and slavery, to provide the labor required by the rise of the Cotton Kingdom. Both of these developments have enabled greater business opportunities. In support of point 2: (Include a brief statement explaining how this point supports your thesis.) The market revolution increased connections between regions of the United States by advancing its infrastructure. External information/specific evidence: Before the market revolution, access to markets was limited in the interior regions of the United States. With new ones.