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US History

This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).

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Chapter 24 - Industry Comes of Age

Chapter 24 - Industry Comes Of Age (1865-1900)

I. The Iron Colt Becomes The Iron Horse

* When Lincoln was shot in 1865 there was only 35,000 miles of stream 

railways in the United States. By 1900 there were 192,556 miles. *Transcontinental railroad building was very costly and risky; the  government gave railroad companies loans 2. Frontier settlements touched with railroads became flourishing cities,  cities that were bypassed withered to ghost towns * Towns fought for host privileges

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