Title: Industry and big business in the late 1800s | Sutori
Headings: Industry and big business in the late 1800s
Industry and big business in the late 1800s
What factors helped explain the growth of industry in the late 1800s?
How did new technologies influence industrialization?
What factors limited southern economic recovery from the Civil War?
Explain how industrialization impacted the lives of Americans.
What were some of the negative effects of industrialization?
How were corporations able to decrease costs and increase profits?
How did people explain their support or opposition to big business?
How did the federal government attempt to regulate business?
What were the effects of monopolies and cartels on consumers?
Why would one person use the term “robber baron” and another “captain of industry”?
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In conclusion, there was a lot of this that went well and didn't during the industrial revolution but all of the things that did happen helped shape the USA into what it is today.
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Content: Most 18th century Americans lived in self-sustaining rural communities. The Industrial Revolution witnessed the evolution of large urban centers, such as Boston and New York City, and spurred a massive internal migration of workers. The Industrial Revolution also stimulated the rise of unskilled labor. This was New York in the 1800s. What were some of the negative effects of industrialization? Of corse there were negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution. Working in a factory was not something people wanted to do. There was a crazy amount of pollution It was an unsafe, dirty environment with long working hours without any breaks. All of the coal that was used for power became smoke after use. Child labor became a huge problem too.