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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