WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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mass production
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division of labor
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interchangeable parts
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Starting in the mid-18th century, innovations like the spinning jenny (a wooden frame with multiple spindles), the flying shuttle, the water frame and the power loom made weaving cloth and spinning yarn and thread much easier. Producing cloth became faster and required less time and far less human labor.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inventions in the Second Industrial Revolution include the telephone, the modern lightbulb, an increase in electrical power, airplanes, automobile, assembly line, air brakes, petroleum refining, the telegraph, the modern typewriter, and the tractor, and the first skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in the mid-to-late 1700s when innovation led to goods being produced in large quantities due to machine manufacturing.