WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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the clergy and government officials
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industrialists, bankers and merchants
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unions and organized farm workers
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teachers and contractors
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Detailed explanation-1: -Major Technological Advances of the Second Industrial Revolution. 1870s. Automatic signals, air brakes, and knuckle couplers on the railroads; the Bessemer and then the open-hearth process in the steel mills; the telephone, electric light, and typewriter.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Industrial Revolution brought about sweeping changes in economic and social organization. These changes included a wider distribution of wealth and increased international trade. Managerial hierarchies also developed to oversee the division of labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main causes of the second industrial revolution were due to: natural resources, abundant labor supply, strong government policy, new sources of power, railroads and American inventors and inventions.
Detailed explanation-4: -*second industrial revolution was the outburst of “steel, chemicals, electricity, and petroleum.” *The effect of European economic and social life was that living conditions got extremely better, Germany emerged on top with mass production. *There was a significant population increase.