WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Textiles, iron, and coal
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Textiles, automobiles, and planes
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Electricity, ships, and radios
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Electricity, steel, and chemicals
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rapid advances in the creation of steel, chemicals and electricity helped fuel production, including mass-produced consumer goods and weapons. It became far easier to get around on trains, automobiles and bicycles. At the same time, ideas and news spread via newspapers, the radio and telegraph.
Detailed explanation-2: -The growth of the steel industry following his invention has come in the popular mind to symbolize the technology of the second Industrial Revolution, and while steel was of course of great significance, such emphases tend to blur the advances in many other industries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Advancements in manufacturing and production technology enabled the widespread adoption of technological systems such as telegraph and railroad networks, gas and water supply, and sewage systems, which had earlier been concentrated to a few select cities.