WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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division into different social classes
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harsh conditions in factories
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overcrowded and unsanitary cities
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Poor workers were often housed in cramped, grossly inadequate quarters. Working conditions were difficult and exposed employees to many risks and dangers, including cramped work areas with poor ventilation, trauma from machinery, toxic exposures to heavy metals, dust, and solvents.
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: -Poverty remains the most serious problem of industrial societies. Though wealth is generated enormously and continuously, it’s unequal distribution causes extreme richness at one end and extreme poverty at another. Hence, it remains one of the most serious problem of industrial societies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rapid industrialization caused discontent among the people, the growth of factories brought new problems, poor working conditions, really low wages, child labor, outlawed trade unions.