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What affects did the Industrial Revolution have on the United States?

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What were railroads and steamboats used for?

Trade and travel

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What new ways was electricity used?

Light bulbs, record players, motion picture

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What is a corporation?

a business owned by several people

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How did companies get enough money to pay workers?

Becoming corporations

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What new thing did people start investing in?

Foreign business

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What is globalization?

The connection of economics, politics, and culture between countries across the world.

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What did the IR do to prices of goods?

Lowered them!

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What happened to cities because of the IR?

first urbanization, then they got overcrowded!

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How would division of labor speed up production?

It simplified what each person did

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Why was the sewing machine important?

It influenced the role and status of women, revolutionized the garment trade, and modernized other businesses such as shoemaking and upholstery.

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What IR invention could you not live without today?

typewriter, telephone, railroad, boat, etc.

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What were factory conditions like?

x

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How did unions affect workers?

organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions

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Competition between companies around the world led to

fewer corporations

lower prices

lower productivity

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The ability to make a large number of the same type of good is called ____________________.

mass production

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Why is global trade important?

x

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