WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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epidemics
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the use of synthetic antibiotics
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the food supply
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migration to rural areas
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Detailed explanation-1: -The development of trade and the rise of business were among the major causes of the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -Population Growth By the time of the Industrial Revolution, there were more people than ever before. A main reason for this was 18th century agricultural improvements, which all but ended the periodic famines that had kept down European populations. From 1750 to 1850, the population of England alone nearly tripled.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1827 cholera had become the most feared disease of the century. The worldwide cholera epidemic was aided by the Industrial Revolution and the accompanying growth of urban tenements and slums.
Detailed explanation-4: -Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis had dire consequences, and these consequences were intensifying on Britain’s increasingly crowded streets.