HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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middle class.
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tenement class.
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wealthy society.
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working class.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What factors led to the rise in mass consumption in the last decades of the 19th century? Expansion of markets, rising incomes, development of affordable products and new merchandise.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following was true of the settlement house workers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? They included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women. Which of the following aimed to promote order, harmony, and virtue while beautifying the nation’s new urban spaces?
Detailed explanation-3: -Millions moved from the countryside and overseas to become city dwellers; the urban population grew from 6 million to 44 million between 1860 and 1910.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.