Examines the railroads; the rise of heavy industry and the birth of corporate America; extractive industries; the cattle frontier and the Homestead Act of 1862; mechanized farming and the agricultural revolution; immigration and the migration west; the rise of the industrial cities; pollution; and the birth of the conservation movement.
"Examines the railroads; the rise of heavy industry and the birth of corporate America; extractive industries; the cattle frontier and the Homestead Act of 1862; mechanized farming and the agricultural revolution; immigration and the migration west; the rise of the industrial cities; pollution; and the birth of the conservation movement."@en
"Describes how the advent of the railroad and steam engine led to the creation of large corporations and growth of cities in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America, and discusses the environmental issues created by these changes."@en
"The railroads; the rise of heavy industry and the birth of corporate America; extractive industries; the cattle frontier and the Homestead Act of 1862; mechanized farming and the agricultural revolution; immigration and the migration west; the rise of the industrial cities; pollution and the birth of the conservation movement."
"Examines the development of the steam engines and the railroad, which served as the catalyst for western expansion, economic growth and the development of large corporations."@en
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