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Title: Growth of Cities/ Industry and Innovation


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Growth of Cities/Industry and Innovation
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  • As the Nations industrial growth continued,
    cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland,
    Pittsburgh, and New York grew rapidly as
    manufacturing and transportation centers.

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  • Factories in large cities provided jobs, but
    workers families often lived in tenements and
    slums.
  • Tenements are overcrowded, bug infested, non
    sanitary housing.

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  • The rapid growth of cities caused housing
    shortages and the need for public services. (
    sewage and water systems)

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NEW YORK was the first city to install an
underground subway system around the turn of the
twentieth century
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  • Many cities built trolleys and streetcar lines.

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A monopoly is
  • When one person or corporation has control over
    one product or service.

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Key Industrial Leaders and Innovations
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  • During the period from the Civil War to World War
    I, the United States underwent an economic
    transformation that involved the development of
    an industrial economy, the expansion of big
    business, the growth of large-scale agriculture,
    and the rise of national labor unions and
    industrial conflict.

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What fueled the modern industrial economy?
  • Technological change spurred growth of industry
    primarily in northern cities.

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Polio Vaccine was created by
  • Dr. Jonas Salk
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