APUSH DBQ - Phillip And Sala Burton Academic High HISTORY 1

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Evaluate the effects of industrialization of U.S. society in the years 1865-1900. Industrialization in U.S. society from 1865 to 1900 has changed economically with the help of new inventions increas... ing production, immigrant workers with cheap labor, socially with new labor unions, and politically with the influence of corporations. Economically, industrialization has made the United States more productive and wealthy with the help of new inventions and immigrants. Historical Statistics of the United States graphed about index prices in America dropping from 1870 to 1899 for food, fuel and lighting and the cost of living index, (Doc1). During the second industrial revolution, with the help of new inventions (light bulb, otis elevator, fridge carts, telegraph), faster and safer transportation (otis elevator, automobi [Show More]

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