Which event directly contributed to the growth of american industries in the mid-1800s

New technologies like steam engines, railroads, and telegraphs which made communication and transporting goods and materials across the country with ease turned many local businesses into national companies.

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

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