The correct answers are: 
Better transportation
War. 
Modern technology. 
Assembly line production. 
Embargo Act of 1807.
The period connecting the end of the War of 1812 and the Civil War was a time of fast development in transportation, accelerated growth of factories, and important expansion of new technology to expand agricultural production. 
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo on all foreign countries established by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France throughout the Napoleonic Wars.