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Digital History: Foreign Competition HandoutDigital History: Foreign Competition Handout
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Digital History
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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1170L
Handout

Digital History: Foreign Competition

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This site describes how by the 1970s, foreign manufacturers were embedded in the U.S. markets. For the U.S., this meant a loss of sales, a loss of jobs, and a loss of economic confidence.

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competition, economy

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economic cause and effect, exportation of labor, foreign competition, foreign countries, foreign manufactured goods, foreign manufacturing, foreign markets, foreign technology, historical cause and effect, joblessness in the 1970s, unemployment, unemployment in the 1970s, unemployment rates in the 1970s, american economy, digital history, u.s. economy, u.s. economy in the 1970s, u.s. technology, decline in american production, loss of american jobs, loss of american jobs in industry, manufacturing in the u.s., gerald ford's domestic policy

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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