Industry Immigration and Urbanization

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Course Outline

  1. Industrialization and Its Foundations
  2. Corporations and Business Integration
  3. Industrialization’s Social Effects
  4. Urbanization and City Growth
  5. Urban Problems and Tenements
  6. Immigration Push and Pull Factors
  7. Immigrant Groups and Americanization
  8. Immigrant Experiences and Exclusion
  9. Political Machines and Immigrants
  10. Farmers and Populist Reform

1. Industrialization and Its Foundations

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Industrialization : the growth of factories, machines, mass production, and large-scale businesses

  • The United States experienced major industrial growth during the Second Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

  • Important developments supporting industrialization included:

    • steel
    • railroads
    • oil
    • electricity
    • new machinery
    • mass production
    • large corporations
    • new communication technologies
  • The Bessemer process made steel much faster and cheaper to produce.

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1. Which situation illustrates vertical integration?

2. What does urbanization describe?

3. Which sequence best describes how a political machine strengthened its control?

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What is industrialization?

The growth of factories, machines, mass production, and large-scale businesses.

When did the US experience major industrial growth in the Second Industrial Revolution?

In the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Name one important development that supported industrialization.

Steel.

Name another important development that supported industrialization.

Railroads.

What did the Bessemer process improve in steel production?

It made steel production much faster and cheaper.

List one use of steel during industrialization.

Railroads.

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