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Critical Thinking Questions

U.S. HistoryCritical Thinking Questions
14.

Industrialization in the Northeast produced great benefits and also major problems. What were they? Who benefited and who suffered? Did the benefits outweigh the problems, or vice versa?

15.

What factors led to the Panic of 1819? What government regulations might have prevented it?

16.

Would the Industrial Revolution have been possible without the use of slave labor? Why or why not?

17.

What might have been the advantages and disadvantages of railroads for the people who lived along the routes or near the stations?

18.

What were the values of the middle class? How did they differ from the values of those above and below them on the socioeconomic ladder? In what ways are these values similar to or different from those held by the middle class today?

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