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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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