After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

1. List and explain major factors contributing to economic growth and explain how changes in transportation were of critical importance.
2. Define the term industrialization and identify the parts of the United States where industrialization took hold between 1830 and 1860.
3. Define the cult of domesticity and explain the reasons for its development, and describe new views of childhood.
4. Describe urban class structure and compare it to rural class structure.
5. Explain the process of establishing a family farm on the midwestern frontier.
6. Discuss the contribution of nontangible factors to economic growth.

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