INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT
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Women moved to the cities to work in the mills and make decent wages.
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African-Americans were freed from slavery as new machines did more work.
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The limited success of the industry forced factory owners to look for other resources
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The number of skilled workers in society increased dramatically.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many suffered from poverty and harsh living and working conditions. What is one way that the development of the American textile industry affected life in the Northeast and Midwest? Women moved to the cities to work in the mills and make decent wages.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The causes of the second industrial revolution in America were: Natural Resources: The United States had a number of natural resources, such as timber, water, coal, iron, copper, silver and gold. Industries took advantage of these natural resources to manufacture a number of goods to put on the market.
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.