... been the easy way out, instead they took that step forward into unchartered land. Palen defines urbanization as, " the changes in the proportion of the population of a nation living in urban places, the process of people moving to cities or other densely settled areas" (Palen, 9). Several elements contributed to urbanization: the invention of the telegraph, development of the railroads, establishment ... of banking, the textile, shipping, agriculture and newspaper industries, the development of steam power and the use of iron products. The growing urban population and the construction o...

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... main reasons was the automobile. The automobile had a profound impact on the United States. It brought superhighways, paved bridges, motels, vacations, suburbia, and the opportunity to trade this money making machine with other countries that had economic growth. Assembly lines became more efficient, thus allowing cars to be made more cheaply and allowing prices of cars to drop, enabling more Americans ... individual, but both aware of the need for trading outside our nation in order to become a superpower. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States experienced ...

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