WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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emergence of the middle class and the working class.
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growing death rates, due to accidents on the highways.
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thick air pollution that choked the British Isles.
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widespread famines caused by families abandoning their farms.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Industrial Revolution brought rapid urbanization or the movement of people to cities. Changes in farming, soaring population growth, and an ever-increasing demand for workers led masses of people to migrate from farms to cities. Almost overnight, small towns around coal or iron mines mushroomed into cities.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Industrial Revolution shifted from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Another important change brought about by the growth of the middle class was the rise of the bourgeoisie, or the capitalist class. The bourgeoisie were the owners of the factories and businesses that drove industrialization, and they were the wealthiest and most powerful members of the middle class.
Detailed explanation-4: -29.390) The most important of the changes that brought about the Industrial Revolution were (1) the invention of machines to do the work of hand tools, (2) the use of steam and later of other kinds of power, and (3) the adoption of the factory system.