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Concept Mapping Activity 20-A
Concept: Influence of Technology
BACKGROUND
In the years after the Civil War, the United States became a major industrial
power. New technologies and inventions brought about economic and social
change. Cities began to dominate the landscape.
DIRECTIONS: Organizing Information Organize the factors that helped the
United States industrialize and the economic and social changes that resulted.
Decide whether each phrase in the Word Bank represents a cause or an effect
of industrialization and write it in the correct part of the diagram.
Causes
Effects
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INDUSTRIALIZATION
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• rich natural resources
• growth of corporations
growth of big business
.pro-business government
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• new sources of power
• formation of monopolies
• new inventions in transportation
and communications
• wider gap between rich and poor
American History: The Early Years to 1877
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Concept Mapping Activities

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native american contribution: the patriots from britain learn how to hunt, fish, and introduce diversity within cultures.

african americans: indirectly introduced the idea of diversity to americans. africans coming to america because of slavery taught white americans that people come from different backgrounds and colors. it also built america's economic stability for a great period of time. 

women: make america what it is today. there are some societies that are in the world currently that do not give women the same right we give women here in the united states. because women have rights here in the united states, other countries' citizens strive to come to america, especially women, since they have equal rights in the united states. this is important because america is seen and desired by many in the world. 

children: children are our future. we learn from our elders and carry out things the same or differently learning from america's history. we continue tradition and change tradition if it is needed. 

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