History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1236 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The End of Rural Isolation
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The idea
Rural isolation broke down as travelling circuses, menageries, peddlers and itinerant painters could now reach remote communities.
In practice
Entertainment and goods arriving in villages that had seen neither.
Where people slip
A national market carries a national culture with it, which is what makes the reform movements of Unit 13 possible.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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