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…showed last 75 words of 471 total…lifestyle alive by settling the west. Industrialization was looked at as something that was unnecessary and foolish. Even with the newfound promise of a lucrative life in the west, America eventually converted into an industrial nation. Although the dream of a perfect life in the west was swept away with the agrarian lifestyle, the ideas of Horatio Alger and his literary colleagues transferred into the industrial age with the rise of industrialists like Andrew Carnegie.