Sentence:  Nor have we remembered that in the melting pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi isolated ethnic , regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had <WSD>caused</WSD> them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner