Industrial Rev (jan 1, 1870 – jan 1, 1915)
Description:
-Era of Self made Man (Rockefeller, Carnegie)began w iron production and textiles
- basis: am inventive spirit, $$, natural resources, immigration = open markets cross country and new workers
- Settlement of W = more markets, Clays Am Sys = internal improvements - RXR to get stuff places, Ham's financial program = $$ stability
- Bessemer process = cheap steel
- big businesses/entrepreneurs
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Date:
jan 1, 1870
jan 1, 1915
~ 45 years