USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

WESTWARD EXPANSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Industrial Revolution was the change from ____ to ____ goods
A
hand-made to machine-made
B
machine-made to hand-made
C
cheap to expensive
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Instead of utilizing artisans to produce hand-made items, machines started to help and eventually take the place of the artisans. Machinery during the Industrial Revolution such as the spinning wheel to produce textiles, the water wheel used to power machinery and the steam engine were invented.

Detailed explanation-3: -Goods that had once been painstakingly crafted by hand started to be produced in mass quantities by machines in factories, thanks to the introduction of new machines and techniques in textiles, iron making and other industries.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Industrial Revolution, the period in which agrarian and handicraft economies shifted rapidly to industrial and machine-manufacturing-dominated ones, began in the United Kingdom in the 18th century and later spread throughout many other parts of the world.

Detailed explanation-5: -What was the Industrial Revolution? The change from making handmade goods to machine-made goods to increase the economy.

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