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Concept Mapping Activity 20-A
Concept: Influence of Technology
BACKGROUND
In the years after the Civil War, the United States became a major industrial
power. New technologies and inventions brought about economic and social
change. Cities began to dominate the landscape.
DIRECTIONS: Organizing Information Organize the factors that helped the
United States industrialize and the economic and social changes that resulted.
Decide whether each phrase in the Word Bank represents a cause or an effect
of industrialization and write it in the correct part of the diagram.
Causes
Effects
LAME
INDUSTRIALIZATION
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• rich natural resources
• growth of corporations
growth of big business
.pro-business government
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• new sources of power
• formation of monopolies
• new inventions in transportation
and communications
• wider gap between rich and poor
American History: The Early Years to 1877
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Concept Mapping Activities
Which of these played the biggest role in increased urbanization in the late 1800s? a) transportation improved b) the military was stronger c) no one was farming anymore d) steam power was discovered