Economic Development
-In the 1870s, the largest industry in the United States was:

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Following the Civil War, agriculture was still the dominant industry in the United States, even though the Second Industrial Revolution was beginning. America was on the verge of becoming the strongest manufacturing nation in the world, but farming still reigned supreme, due, in part, to the South's single-minded focus on agriculture and the settlement of the Great Plains, which also focused almost singularly on agriculture.

Economic Development -In the 1870s, the Largest Industry in the United States