Benson, Sonia. <br/><br/>
Development of the industrial U.S.  Almanac / 
Sonia G. Benson ; Jennifer York Stock, project editor. 
 - Detroit :  Thomson/Gale,  c2006. 
 - lv, 216 p :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Industrialism takes root in the United States -- Transportation and communication systems in the new nation -- The machine makers -- The first factories -- The Gilded Age -- Railroads : the first big business -- The robber barons -- Urbanization -- Workers in the industrial age -- The American labor movement -- The new South -- The effects of industrialism on the West -- The reformers take on industry : the Progressive Era -- Industrialism in the twentieth century. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1414401752 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781414401751 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005015915 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Industries--History--United States--Juvenile literature.<br/>Industrial revolution--History--United States--Juvenile literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Economic conditions--To 1865--Juvenile literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC 105  / .B454 2006