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=**Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy**=


 * Main Ideas:**
 * 1) How various factors (raw materials, labor supply, technology, business organization, growing markets, and friendly governments) combined to thrust the United States into worldwide industrial leadership.
 * 2) How this explosion of industrial capitalism was both extolled for its accomplishments and attacked for its excesses.
 * 3) How American workers, who on the average benefited, reacted to the physical and psychological realities of the new economic order.


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 * Handouts/Homework: **



"To what extent is it justified to characterize the industrial leaders of the 1865-1900 era as either "robber barons" or "industrial statesmen"? (AP Amsco p353)
 * DBQs:**

"How and why did transportation developments spark economic growth during the period from 1860-1900 in the United States?" (2001 FRQ4)
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