Define the parameters of this unit, and explain how the era is

bookmarked by major turning points.

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The parameters of this unit are the benefits of the industry as an economic trigger in the country and the many improvements in economics and US politics. It goes from the importance of the construction of more and better railroads that connected the nation, to the key industries such as the oil industry or the steel industry that modernized America.

The major turning points of this era were the benefits and challenges of industrialization, immigrant workers that arrived in the United States, reformers, labor unions and benefits for American workers, new farmer organizations that supported agriculture workers, and a middle class that increased in time and influenced the life of America.

the crusades are one of the most significant events in the history of europe and the middle east.   they were a series of religious wars carried out by christian crusaders from europe during the timeframe of the middle ages.   beginning in 1095 ce, the crusades saw european knights and noblemen travel to the middle east in an attempt to capture the holy land away from muslim people that had controlled the region for the previous centuries.   the term crusade means ‘cross’.   therefore, the europeans that became crusaders viewed themselves as ‘taking up the cross’.   in fact, many of the crusaders wore crosses on their clothing and armor as they made their pilgrimage to the holy land.

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