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| Define industrialization. |
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| The development of industry on an extensive scale. |
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| What spured american industrial growth? |
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| -railroads in the late 1860's |
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| What were industrial unions? |
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| It united all craftworkers and common laborers in a particular industry. |
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| What led to nativism? (a preference for native born people) |
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| The increase of immigration. |
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| What was life like for minorities? |
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| They lived in tenements and were blamed for murder and theft. |
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| Why were people attracted to the city life? |
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| Cities provided mines and factories for easy labor. (many left their farms) |
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| Big businesses would not have been possible with out the _______________. |
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| corporation. (an organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it was a single a person) |
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| Why did farming decline in the United States? |
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-1890s the price of wheat went down causing many farmers to go bankrupt.
-Prolonged droughts.
-America's wheat producers faced rising competition from other wheat producers which caused wheat prices to drop. |
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| What were conditions like for child laborers? |
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| They were unhealthy and dangerous. |
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