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Ch. 6.1:
Vocabulary:
Entrepeneur-A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a bussiness venture.
Incandescent-Giving off visible light as a result of being heated.
Bessemer Process-A efficient manufacturing process that injects air into
A National Network
- 1856 - U.S. had railroads from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, 3 years later, there were tracks all the way to the Missouri River
- Start of Civil War = 30,000 miles of tracks. 1890 - railroad tracks had reached 180,000 m
was born in Scotland in 1836. He was poor and he moved to the U.S. when he was 12 years old in 1848. In six years he worked his way up to private secratary for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Thomas Scott gave him a chance t
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Battle of Wounded Knee:
- A Paiute prophet promised that if the Sioux performed a ritual called the Ghost DAnce, Native American lands and way of life would be restored.
- Rapidly, this Ghost Dance movement spread amount th
-What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?
Skyscrapers, electricity in rail ways,
technology and urban life
- cities in the industrial area expanded outward and upward.
- in 1870 25 cities in america had populations over 50,000
The Emergence of Political Machines
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- cities experienced rapid growth due to the government in the 19th centry
- The Political Machine
- the political machine was an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in the city
- also they o
- the political machine was an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in the city
