USA HISTORY

THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825

AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was one effect of industrialization on the U.S. economy in the 1870s?
A
a decline in skilled manufacturing jobs in the Midwest
B
an increase in sharecropper farming in the South
C
a decline in the immigrant population of cities in the North
D
an increase in railroad construction in the West
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The effect of industrialization on the U.S. economy in the 1870s is that there is increase in railroad construction in the West. Industrialization in the U.S. economy was said to be a sudden increase in the levels of production in domestic manufacturing and commercial agriculture.

Detailed explanation-2: -Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy. Industrial growth transformed American society. It produced a new class of wealthy industrialists and a prosperous middle class. It also produced a vastly expanded blue collar working class.

Detailed explanation-3: -Industrialization, along with great strides in transportation, drove the growth of U.S. cities and a rapidly expanding market economy. It also shaped the development of a large working class in U.S. society, leading eventually to labor struggles and strikes led by working men and women.

Detailed explanation-4: -Railroads became a major industry, stimulating other heavy industries such as iron and steel production. These advances in travel and transport helped drive settlement in the western regions of North America and were integral to the nation’s industrialization.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Industrial Revolution shifted from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.

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