The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

and other entrepreneurs, led their herds north by a more westerly route, across unsettled grasslands, to the Kansas Pacific line ...

Open-Range Ranching 451 Gulf of Mexico PACIFIC OCEAN Platt eR. Lak eSuperior aL ek M ic hi ga n ColoradoR . iM ss iss ipp iR . R ...

452 Over the next three years, Love served with outfits that drove cattle to grazing ranges and markets through- out the West (s ...

Barbed-Wire Warfare 453 Act (1877) allowed anyone to obtain 640 acres in the arid states for $1.25 an acre provided the owner ir ...

454 Chapter 16 The Conquest of the West In 1885 masked Nebraskans seeking access to water posed for photographer S. D. Butcher, ...

Chapter Review 455 Reinforce what you learned in this chapter by studying the many documents, images, maps, review tools, and vi ...

Do you save money at big box stores? 456 In 2010 Walmart, with 2.1 million employees, was the largest corporation in the history ...

An Industrial Giant EmergesAn Industrial Giant Emerges 17 CONTENTS 457 having “democratized consumption” in the United States by ...

458 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges Essentials of Industrial Growth When the Civil War began, the country’s industrial ou ...

Railroads: The First Big Business 459 later explained, “I fixed on the railroad system as the most developing force and the larg ...

460 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. In 1871 the Pennsylvania line obtained access to New Yor ...

Iron, Oil, and Electricity 461 Iron, Oil, and Electricity The transformation of iron manufacturing affected the nation almost as ...

462 area needed to import massive amounts of grain—milled wheat and corn—to feed its people. The map also indicates that the mai ...

463 This “hypothetical” water-based transportation system might have been as efficient as the railroads. In 1890, the cost of tr ...

464 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges commercially in the 1860s. In 1870, 77,000 tons of steel were manufactured; by 1890, ...

He was true to his promise. In 1882 his Edison Illuminating Company opened a power station in New York City and began to supply ...

466 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges discrimination speeded the concentration of industry in large corporations located in ...

Competition and Monopoly: Steel 467 facilities, only to suffer heavy losses when demand declined. The forward rush of technology ...

468 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges Competition and Monopoly: Oil The pattern of fierce competition leading to combi- nat ...

Competition and Monopoly: Oil 469 of oilpipelines and large reserves of petroleumin the ground. Standard Oil emerged victorious ...