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Headings: Unit 2: Farmers, 2nd Industrial Revolution
Unit 2: Farmers, 2nd Industrial Revolution
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Content: In addition, immigrants arrived in major cities in waves. The number of factory workers increased sharply. By the end of the 19th century, the United States had become a manufacturing economy. Economic challenges to farmers and farmers responses to those challenges in the mid to late 1800s
The primary economic problem was the Civil War and the Reconstruction period. Farms and plantations alike were looted if not burned, and the infrastructure needed to bring products to market were largely destroyed. Farmers and plantation owners, having lost their slaves, found themselves needing to actually pay people to do work. Changes that occurred as the United States shifted from an agrarian to an industrial society
1) It was the California gold fields, the discovery of rich gold veins in the late 1840s, that made the US a rich country. That gold encouraged westward expansion, it paid for the building of the railroads. The causes, course, and consequences of the labor movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s
At the end of the Civil War, the United States entered a period of enormous change. American industry expanded.