HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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Women in unions gained bargaining power with employers.
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The government passed laws to improve safety for women in the workplace.
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Women seeking work migrated from rural communities to cities.
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State governments called conventions in support of women’s suffrage.
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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: -Q. Which of these was an effect of the Industrial Revolution on U.S. women int he early nineteenth century? Women in unions gained bargaining power with employers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Industrialization, along with great strides in transportation, drove the growth of U.S. cities and a rapidly expanding market economy. It also shaped the development of a large working class in U.S. society, leading eventually to labor struggles and strikes led by working men and women.
Detailed explanation-4: -Women in the working class, worked during the Industrial Revolution with lower wages than men and often times started working as children. Women during this time also had to be the caretaker of the house, so they might have worked all day and night to keep up their daily routine.