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-- built the world's largest standing army;
-- defeated the South;
-- turned the country into the world's "greatest industrial giant;"
-- launched the steel industry, a continental railroad system, and a new era of farm machinery and cheap tools;
-- established free higher education;
-- gave settler ownership rights and encouraged land development through the Homestead Act;
-- had government support all branches of science;
-- standardized mass production methods;
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