Work, Exchange, and Technology in the United States

by Cassandra Schumacher

Overview

The United States is known as a nation of innovators, from the first colonists who endeavored to find religious freedom and economic opportunity in the New World to business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie to the cutting-edge inventors in Silicon Valley today. From its first days as a nation to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, America has focused on creating new businesses, technologies, labor systems, and trade patterns. In turn, this focus has fostered breakthroughs and widespread change in American society. This essential volume places American labor and innovation in context, examining how policy and cultural shifts are influenced by work and exchange.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781502642622
Publisher:	Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	12/30/2018
Series:	Discovering America: An Exceptional Nation Series
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Working Toward a New Nation: 1491 to 1800 5

Chapter 2 Under Construction: 1800 to 1877 29

Chapter 3 Rebuilding and Growing: 1877 to 1945 53

Chapter 4 Modern America: 1945 to Today 75

Chronology 94

Glossary 99

Further Information 101

Bibliography 103

Index 108

About the Author 112