WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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the Iron Workers’ Revolt of 1986.
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a mass exodus from the cities back to the farms.
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socialism, in which society owns and controls the means of production.
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a cry for rights for animals that worked in coal mines.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the first half of the nineteenth century, the pitiful conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to a movement known as socialism. Socialism is a system in which society, usually through government, owns and controls some means of production (factories and utilities, for example).
Detailed explanation-2: -Socialism emerged as a response to the expanding capitalist system. It presented an alternative, aimed at improving the lot of the working class and creating a more egalitarian society.
Detailed explanation-3: -Solution. During the Industrial Revolution, money and power came to the hands of capitalists. So, according to the acceptance of the anti-thesis ‘Laissez-faire’, the doctrine was socialism which visualised a society free from exploitation.
Detailed explanation-4: -The basis for modern socialism primarily originates with the Age of Enlightenment and the accompanying rise of liberalism and the Industrial Revolution.