2.1 Industrialization, Immigration, and Urbanization

Learning Targets:

• Analyze how the rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovations transformed the American economy from an agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society.
• Explain the major social and economic effects of industrialization and the influence of the growth of organized labor following Reconstruction in the United States.
• Analyze and evaluate how immigration, internal migration and urbanization transformed American life.

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