Industrialization and progressivism (1877-1920)

Cotrill

Industrialization

period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from a agrarian society to an industrial society

Agrarian society

any society who’s economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland

Urbanization

the movement of people from rural areas to cities

Capitalism

Economic system based on private ownership of the means

of production and their operation for profit.

Corporation

A company or group of people or an organization authorized

to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

Transcontinental Railroad

Connected the nation’s east and west coasts by railway

Bessemer Process

The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass

production of steel.

Mass production

The production or manufacture of goods in large

quantities, especially by machinery.

Agricultural Mechanization-

The process of using agricultural machinery

to mechanize the work of agriculture,

Cyrus McCormick

Invented the reaper, the horse-drawn machine used to

harvest grain more efficiently.

Explain the transformation of the US economy from agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society

inovations, railroads, crops growing, people finding other jobs