Industrial Revolution

the electric lightbulb

There was very little need for skilled labor

Nativist groups wanted to restrict immigration.

Jacob Riis' book, How the Other Half Lives

People worked shorter weeks and fewer hours.

there was no water in many tenements.

A corporation

Allowed rural families to become consumers

Catalogs from big named stores give customers a chance to shop from home. When ordering from a catalog you can have the stuff shipped to your home.

They showed that businesses had rights.

They argued that white was the superior race. And that immigrants would destroy the country

They were filled with waste water.

The political goal of farmers was lower prices for grain storage.

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