HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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people migrated from villages to work on large farms
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people began selling their goods instead of trading them
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people learned to use machines to make their own clothes
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people migrated from rural areas to cities
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Detailed explanation-1: -Merchants and Industrialists could open up offices in far off lands and profit from the emerging markets there. This led to migration of some workers. These migrants needed new homes, roads, services. This led to additional migration.
Detailed explanation-2: -Industrial expansion and population growth radically changed the face of the nation’s cities. Noise, traffic jams, slums, air pollution, and sanitation and health problems became commonplace. Mass transit, in the form of trolleys, cable cars, and subways, was built, and skyscrapers began to dominate city skylines.
Detailed explanation-3: -Factories centralized the production of food and common goods resulting in increased migration to cities. All sorts of people, including farmers who were driven out of work, headed to urbanized areas in search of new jobs that sprouted due to the incredible innovations developed during the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The technological explosion that was the Industrial Revolution led to a momentous increase in the process of urbanization. Larger populations in small areas meant that the new factories could draw on a big pool of workers and that the larger labour force could be ever more specialized.