Chapter 42 for American Pageant

Ch. 42 The American People Face A New Century
ECONOMIC REVOLUTIONS
-General motors, the characteristic Amer corp. (switching from US steel corp.) This singaled a shift to mass consumer economy.
-The International Business Machines (IBM) symbolized another transformation to the "information age," when the storing, organizing, and processing of data became an industry in its own right.
-There was then a communications revolution w/the emergence of the internet& Microsoft Corp. Where traditional geographic, social& political boundaries could be crossed. Ordinary citizens could gain a…