HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Led to increased immigration and slavery
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The cotton gin led to the temperance movement
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These inventions DID NOT affect how people worked
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Transportation had the greatest impact on the development of the American economy before the Civil War. Around this time period, Americans had developed grounbreaking infastructure, including railroads and steamboats.
Detailed explanation-2: -The period after the American Civil War was marked by increasing intense and pervasive industrialization and successive technological advances like the railroad, telegraph & telephone, and internal combustion engine.
Detailed explanation-3: -New Social Classes Emerge The Industrial Revolution created a new middle class along with the working class. Those in the middle class owned and operated the new factories, mines, and railroads, among other industries. Their lifestyle was much more comfortable than that of the industrial working class.
Detailed explanation-4: -Factories used new tools and methods to produce supplies in large numbers. Railroads expanded across the nation. The government encouraged immigration. Natural resources provided fuel for growth.
Detailed explanation-5: -American goods were increasingly made in factories as companies adopted large-scale, standardized production methods in the late 1800s. Specialized machines took the place of manual tasks-such as sewing buttonholes for ready-made clothing-speeding up the work to meet the growing demands of a nation of consumers.