WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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The costs of production increased significantly.
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Production methods began to decrease efficiency.
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Manufacturers were forced to locate plants nearer to sources of power.
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Manufacturers were able to build manufacturing plants where they wanted
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Detailed explanation-1: -Introduction of electricity allowed factories to develop modern production lines. As fact, the first assembly line was patented in 1901 by Ransom E. Olds, producer of Oldsmobile cars. His method allowed his company to produce 20 units per day, which eventually increased their output by 500 percent in one year.
Detailed explanation-2: -Electricity allowed factories to stay open through night-time hours, facilitated more rapid communication via the electric telegraph, and resulted in the expansion of demand for fossil fuels to power factories, streetlights, and homes.
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: -Electricity became important during the Second Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s. Electric lights allowed factories to stay open longer and produce more goods. The Industrial Revolution began in the textile industry.
Detailed explanation-5: -The second industrial revolution had begun! Electricity moved into many areas such as industry, railway transport, street lighting before it went into homes. In the 1920s, the rapid expansion of electricity made it possible for electricity networks to be established in industrial countries.