USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does the term industrialization mean?
A
When a society shifts from people working in factories to using computer technology.
B
When a society shifts from most people working in factories to most people working on farms.
C
When a society shifts from most people working on farms to most people working in factories.
D
When people giving up all worldly possessions.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Industrialization is a transformation away from an agricultural-or resource-based economy, toward an economy based on mechanized manufacturing. Industrialization is usually associated with a greater average income and improved living standards.

Detailed explanation-2: -Industrialisation is defined as the age of factories when goods were produced mostly in factories through machines. However, the production of goods happened even before what we know as industrialisation. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the expansion of trade and acquisition of foreign lands.

Detailed explanation-3: -Historians have identified several causes for the Industrial Revolution, including: the emergence of capitalism, European imperialism, efforts to mine coal, and the effects of the Agricultural Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Industrialisation is the duration of social and economic transformation that changes a human group from an agricultural community into an industrial society.

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