WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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A system where merchants work with their hands.
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A system where people from rural areas move into cities.
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A system where machines take over work that humans used to do.
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A system where merchants work with machines in factories.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The factory system is a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labor. Because of the high capital cost of machinery and factory buildings, factories are typically privately owned by wealthy individuals or corporations who employed the operative labor.
Detailed explanation-2: -factory system, system of manufacturing that began in the 18th century and is based on the concentration of industry into specialized-and often large-establishments. The system arose in the course of the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the Industrial Revolution, family-based cottage-industries were displaced by the factory system, a method of manufacturing using machinery and the division of labor. The factory system was first adopted in Great Britain at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700’s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Examples include fulling mills, where workers cleaned woolen cloth, as well as hammer forges, glassworks, breweries, and early paper mills.