WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Growth of cities
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Increase in railroad jobs
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Westward expansion
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People began moving to the suburbs
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Detailed explanation-1: -Railroads became a major industry, stimulating other heavy industries such as iron and steel production. These advances in travel and transport helped drive settlement in the western regions of North America and were integral to the nation’s industrialization.
Detailed explanation-2: -It had a positive effect of the economy as it helped facilitate trade between the east and west of the USA, and between the USA and Asia. Likewise, it encouraged the growth of the cattle industry. The railroad also made homestead life easier.
Detailed explanation-3: -They contributed to economic dislocation and depression, encouraged corruption, and destroyed local economies and communities. The builders were inept and built shoddy products. There was abuse of labor and destruction of the labor movement.
Detailed explanation-4: -The transport of heavy materials became much cheaper. Railways encouraged people to travel further and this meant people could move to different areas to find work. MPs were able to travel more quickly between their constituencies and the Houses of Parliament in London.