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Between the end of the Civil War and 1900, the United States surpassed all other countries as the world's leading industrial nation. By any measure - number of workers employed in factories; production of raw materials such as coal, iron, and oil; or the development of new technology - the American achievement was impressive. With industrial progress, however, came changes in the nature of work and the beginning of organized labor, as well as the federal government's first serious steps to regulate big business. It was also the age of the great entrepreneurs. Whether hailed as captains of industry or condemned as robber barons, men like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, financier J. Pierpont Morgan, and inventor Thomas A. Edison changed the very structure of the American economy.
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Which technological advance contributed to the growth of suburbs in the late nineteenth century?
New Railroad lines :)
What role did warfare play in the various nineteenth century nation building efforts?
idkk :)
What was the most significant contribution of the railroad to late-nineteenth-century industrializing America?
They went where canals and rivers didn't go.
What crop contributed the greatest wealth to the US in the early nineteenth century?
Mainly, cotton, rice, tobacco, and sugar!
2 How did the railroad industry pioneer the economic developments of the late nineteenth century?
It made the transportation of people, goods and services much easier and faster.
Which technological advance contributed to the growth of suburbs in the late nineteenth century?
New Railroad lines :)
What nineteenth century industrialist was closely associated with the railroad?
cornelius vanderbilt
Who controlled much of the the railroad industry by the late nineteenth century?
Cornelius vanderbilt
Who controlled much of the railroad industry by the late nineteenth century?
Cornelius vanderbilt
Which of these contributed to the economic growth of the North during the early to mid nineteenth century?
developments in transportation
What role did warfare play in the various nineteenth century nation building efforts?
idkk :)
What was the most significant contribution of the railroad to late-nineteenth-century industrializing America?
They went where canals and rivers didn't go.
Which improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the fi rst half of the nineteenth century?
railroad
What was responsible for the declining of death in the nineteenth century?
What contributed to a lower death rate in the 19th century, was better nutrition improvements in personal hygiene and public health.
Two new technical developments of the late nineteenth century that contributed to the spectacular growth of American cities were?
The Telegraph and the railroads
Who was the American civil engineer responsible for much of the railroad construction in the western and southwestern US during the nineteenth century?
Grenville Dodge
The nineteenth century was when?
The nineteenth century was from 1800 - 1899.
