industrial (f)

What was the Industrial Revolution?

• Increased purchase of land by wealthy landowners to cultivate larger fields.

• 
  Increased output of machine-made goods that began in England during the 18th-century

• 
  A widespread use of teenagers as factory laborers who worked 14 hour days, 6 days a week.

• Increased populations of urban areas during the 1800s.

During and after reconstruction, America entered a period called-----

• urbanization

• industrialization

industrial revolution changed life after ----war

• world war

• civil war

what contributed to industrial growth?

• government aid to business,

• abundant resources

• railroad boom

• abundant resources ,new technology, government aid to business, railroad boom, steel and oil.

--- helped American industry by making foreign goods more expensive

---a method to make stronger steel at a low cost.

steel mills sprang up across the

• east

• west

• midwest

• northwest

American Industry grew rapidly after the civil war, bringing revolutionary changes to American society

• true

• false

In 1914, the GNP was --- times greater than when the civil war ended

• 2

• 4

• 6

• 8

GNP ( Gross national product) is

• value of all goods and services produced by a country

• value of all goods and services produced by a state

• value of all goods and services produced by a other country