Development of the industrial U.S.
By: Sonia G. Benson ; Jennifer York Stock, project editor.
Contributors: Stock, Jennifer York, 1974-
Publisher: UXL
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Industries -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature; Industrial revolution -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature; United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865 -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Research and activity ideas; title: Industrialism takes root in the United States; title: Transportation and communication systems in the new nation; title: The machine makers; title: The first factories; title: The Gilded Age; title: Railroads : the first big business; title: The robber barons; title: Urbanization; title: Workers in the industrial age; title: The American labor movement; title: The new South; title: The effects of industrialism on the West; title: The reformers take on industry : the Progressive Era; title: Industrialism in the twentieth century.