WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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railroads and assembly lines
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telephones and radios
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typewriters and motion pictures
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toll roads and canals
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Detailed explanation-1: -Electrification allowed the final major developments in manufacturing methods of the Second Industrial Revolution, namely the assembly line and mass production. Electrification was called “the most important engineering achievement of the 20th century” by the National Academy of Engineering.
Detailed explanation-2: -Transporting Products. For the first time, goods from the American interior could be shipped directly to the Atlantic, and vice versa. Being able to ship products great distances transformed the nature of economic activity in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inventions in the Second Industrial Revolution include the telephone, the modern lightbulb, an increase in electrical power, airplanes, automobile, assembly line, air brakes, petroleum refining, the telegraph, the modern typewriter, and the tractor, and the first skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Second Industrial Revolution led to a widening of the gap between rich and poor. As factories and machines became more prevalent, the wealthy factory owners and those who owned the means of production became richer, while the workers who were employed in these factories often remained poor.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Second Industrial Revolution was a period of groundbreaking advancements in manufacturing, technology, and industrial production methods, particularly in the United States, from around 1870 to 1914.