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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?
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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.
