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One of the big ideas of this chapter was the "Populist party" because they played a big roll in the industrial revolution. For example they had problems with the railroad and had to pay extra. So a big group of farmers came together to for the "Populist party" and put an end to the railroad charging extra. So they finally got the attention of the government and the government had finally started to restrict the railroad.

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The most interesting thing that I had learned from this chapter was that the big business men had more power than government. This was interesting to me because whenever I learned about government, I never had heard of business men had more control. Also I thought that government always had cared about businesses but they didn't. The business men had also found loop holes through the government laws.

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The way the government cared about business in the late 1800's and early 1900's was insane. The businesses had been polluting their local areas, they were not competing fairly between each other. Big business men didn't respect their workers and the government didn't do a thing about it. One of the main reasons they didn't do anything about was because the big business men had the power and government officials didn't. But eventually they had to do something about it because it was getting out of hand.

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One new word I learned in this unit was monopoly. I knew that a monopoly had to do with businesses but I didn't know what they meant. When I heard the word monopoly I would normally think of the game. But when I first learned what the word meant, I was confused because the word and definition didn't match. Before I learned what a monopoly was, I though it was a good thing. I eventually learned that monopolies were bad.

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The transcontinental railroad was a big part of the industrial revolution because it increased to expansion of people moving West. It also got people across the country in a shorter amount of time. It used to take people 4 months to cross the country and now it takes 4 days. The Transcontinental Railroad also helped farmers get their crops across to people that they can't get to.

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Horatio was an american writer and wrote his books on young kids who have not come from much, but then they become something amazing because of how they worked. One thing that makes him significant is that there are many people who are like this, and come from nothing and turn into anything better than nothing. Horatio was one of the best writer's of the because of how his stories were told. Also he made people think that if people in the book can rise from nothing so can they.

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William McKinley played a big role while the industrial revolution was in swing. He was a republican who was a gold bug. But he was also one of our presidents, and he beat William Bryan Jennings. He also gave his famous "Front Porch Campaign" from Canton, Ohio.