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Business activity and enterprise
What is industry?
How many people are in a given area
What is population?
After this war, the populations of cities grew because industries began doing well
What is the Civil War?
Because of railroads, these two cities were considered to be "gateways" to the west and midwest.
What are Pittsburg and Chicago?
This phenomenon caused farmers to struggle for survival because prices dropped in the early 1900s.
What is overproduction?
How people get around
What is transportation?
Materials needed to make a product
What are resources?
What industries can make out of iron ore
What is steel?
About this many farms were in the US before the Civil War
What is 2 million?
After the Civil War, many white and black families became this kind of farmers.
What are sharecroppers?
Anything related to farming and ranching
What is agriculture?
People who move into a new country
What are immigrants?
The industries that began to thrive in the eastern US
What are iron and steel?
About this many farms were in the US by the turn of the 20th century
What is 10 million
A large, mostly flat region of the US where many immigrants set up new farms between the Civil War and the early 1900s.
What are the Great Plains?
The practice of farmers using other people's land for a share of the yield
What is sharecropping?
When there is too much of a product at a given time causing the prices to drop
What is overproduction?
These three cities became major US industrial centers after the Civil War
What are Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit?
The major law that promoted growth of American farming
What is the Homestead Act?
The Homestead Act allowed over 400,000 families to receive this many acres of land to start farms.
What is 160?
The place where a product is made
What is a factory?
The process of making products from raw materials
What is manufacturing?
This new technology allowed companies to "ship" their products to consumers.
What are railroads?
Improvements in this farming tool, which turns up the soil, made farms more productive
What is the plow?
The reason why Pittsburg's NFL team is called the Steelers.
What is because the city had a thriving steel industry?