Urbanization in the American North and an…

1888 CE to 1899 CE

Urbanization in the American North and an unprecedented influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe supplies a surplus of labor for the country's industrialization and transforms its culture.

National infrastructure including telegraph and transcontinental railroads had spurred economic growth and greater settlement and development of the American Old West.

The later invention of electric light and the telephone also affect communication and urban life.

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View →

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Party System, Third (United States) View →

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People: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Location: Allatoona Bartow Georgia United States
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