COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM 1870 1914
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allowed for more efficient overseas exploration
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encouraged exploration of new areas
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allowed colonial powers to maintain more effective control over colonies
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all of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Advances in transportation and communication changed the way that people lived. People could travel faster and farther by steamship, railroad, car, and airplanes. They could also communicate nationally and internationally by telegraph, telephone, and radio.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone which changed the way people communicated forever. The Industrial Revolution brought about the need for improved transportation. Large amounts of goods needed to be shipped from factories to stores throughout the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -19th Century Transportation Movement At the beginning of the century, U.S. citizens and immigrants to the country traveled primarily by horseback or on the rivers. After a while, crude roads were built and then canals. Before long the railroads crisscrossed the country moving people and goods with greater efficiency.