Industrialization And The West

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What is industrialization?

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a period of rapid advances in technology, industry, and mass production

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How did natural resources contribute to industrialization?

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Natural resources provided the raw material that industry needed to make things.

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How did a large workforce contribute to industrialization?

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Big families and immigrants seeking jobs provided workers for industry.

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What is laissez-faire economics?

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The government takes a hands-off approach and doesn't regulate the economy

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How did free enterprise contribute to industrialization?

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Entrepreneurs were attracted to invest in American industry

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How did electricity and innovation contribute to industrialization?

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Electricity helped technology rapidly advance and improved production.

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How did the Transcontinental Railroad impact Native Americans?

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Railroad construction displaced Native Americans and crushed their natural food source

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What major project connected the nation and created a true national economy for the first time?

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The transcontinental railroad

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What are Native American reservations?

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Places where Native Americans were forced to live

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How did the transcontinental railroad impact trade and the economy?

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By creating the first true national economy