*The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.* I. Introduction ¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 2 In the early years of the nineteenth century, Americans’ endless commercial ambition—what one Baltimore paper in 1815 called an “almost universal ambition to get forward”—remade the nation. ((Niles’ Weekly Register (December … Continue reading 08. The Market Revolution