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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
LAME
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

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more. until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student in the johnstown academy with a class of boys. though i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled freely together. in running races, sliding downhill, and snowballing, we made no [division] of gender. true, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations. i dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's, but there was no public evidence of [favoritism]. which detail supports the central idea that stanton feels females and males were generally treated equally at johnstown academy? until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student . . i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics . . [t]here was no public evidence of [favoritism]. true, the boys would carry the school books . .