Development of the industrial U.S. Almanac / Sonia G. Benson ; Jennifer York Stock, project editor.
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TextPublication details: Detroit : Thomson/Gale, c2006Description: lv, 216 p : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 1414401752 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Industries -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature | Industrial revolution -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature | United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865 -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 330.973/05 LOC classification: HC105 | .B454 2006Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Industrialism takes root in the United States -- Transportation and communication systems in the new nation -- The machine makers -- The first factories -- The Gilded Age -- Railroads : the first big business -- The robber barons -- Urbanization -- Workers in the industrial age -- The American labor movement -- The new South -- The effects of industrialism on the West -- The reformers take on industry : the Progressive Era -- Industrialism in the twentieth century.
| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | REF/330.97305/DEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844300076417 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Industrialism takes root in the United States -- Transportation and communication systems in the new nation -- The machine makers -- The first factories -- The Gilded Age -- Railroads : the first big business -- The robber barons -- Urbanization -- Workers in the industrial age -- The American labor movement -- The new South -- The effects of industrialism on the West -- The reformers take on industry : the Progressive Era -- Industrialism in the twentieth century.
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