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- Huston Allen - Unit 6 Choice board, Industrialization
- Westward Expansion
- The Gilded Age
- The beginnings of industrialization moved slowly, but rapidly increased and grew in the 19th century. Industrialization depended on new inventions, technologies, and processes that evolved the American economy into an industrial one. Industrialization also heavily relied on the labor of enslaved people, wage workers, and immigrants and exploited them.
- The New South
- In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. This led to settlers going out to settle the land. United States would have to continue to expand. By 1840, nearly 7 million Americans–40 percent of the nation’s population–lived in the trans-Appalachian West. Following a trail blazed by Lewis and Clark
- a period of booming prosperity in the United States that created a class of the super-rich. People who were not super rich were at the very bottom. Money was scarce for them and were looking for work.
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