WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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They boycotted manufactured goods.
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The emigrated from the U.S. in large numbers.
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They began to organize labor unions.
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The migrated back to the farms.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Industrial Revolution led to rapid changes in people’s living and working conditions. In response to poor working conditions, labor movements organized alliances known as unions and pushed for reforms. Reform movements happened around the world but started in Britain and the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -There were harsh and unsafe working conditions in these early factories. The machines posed a significant threat to workers’ lives. Even more deadly was work performed in coal mines. Owners of mines and factories had considerable control over the lives of laborers who worked long hours for low pay.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The pace of work usually became faster and faster; work was often performed in factories built to house the machines. Finally, factory managers began to enforce an industrial discipline, forcing workers to work set hours which were often very long.