1'? Entrepreneurs helped to create a market revolution in production and commerce, in which market relationships between producers and consumers came to prevail as the manufacture of goods became more organized. Legislation and judicial systems supported the development of roads, canals, and railroads, which extended and enlarged markets and helped foster regional interdependence. Transportation networks linked the North and Midwest more closely than they linked regions in the South. Increasing Southern cotton production and the related growth of Northern manufacturing, banking, and shipping industries promoted the development of national and international commercial ties. I ANALYSIS: Which innovation had the greatest impact on American society? Defend your answer. Transportat ion... Roads... Canals... Steam Engines and Steamboats... Railroads... Comrnunicat ion... Growth of Industry... Mechanical Inventions... Corporations for Raising Capital... Factory System