The Market Revolution Images
Industrial Spy, Entrepreneurial Genius
Francis Cabot Lowell
Modern Technology
The power looms and their women operators at the Lowell Mills
Henry Clay
The Kentucky statesman and advocate of the "American System"
"The Marriage of the Waters"
This 1905 painting by C.Y. Turner commemorates the completion of the Erie Canal; New York Governor DeWitt Clinton pours water from Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Erie Canal
An 1830 watercolor of the Eric Canal painted by John William Hill
Charles Finney
The most influential evangelical preacher of the Second Great Awakening
Religious Enthusiasm
Watercolor by J. Maze Burbank (c. 1839) depicting a camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening
Father of the Erie Canal
New York Governor DeWitt Clinton