WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Factories became larger
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New Technologies emerged
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Transportation became more expensive
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Electrical power replaced steam/water power
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rapid advances in the creation of steel, chemicals and electricity helped fuel production, including mass-produced consumer goods and weapons. It became far easier to get around on trains, automobiles and bicycles. At the same time, ideas and news spread via newspapers, the radio and telegraph.
Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Blind Nationalism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Railroads Replace Steamships Though not depicted in Storm King, the railroad and steam-powered locomotive had arguably had the greatest impact on both transportation and western expansion.
Detailed explanation-4: -Railways emerged as a new means of transportation that was available throughout the year, both cheap and fast, to carry passengers and goods. They combined two inventions, the iron track which replaced the wooden track in the 1760s) and haulage along it by a steam-engine.