Impact of the industrial age

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Which country was the first to industrialize in Europe?

Britain

How did Francis Cabot Lowell begin to transform the role of women in the United States?

He gave women a chance to earn a living.

The assembly line was perfected by

Henry Ford

Which country showed the greatest percentage increase in world manufacturing from 1870 to 1913?

The United States

After Germany's unification in 1871, industrialization accelerated and

constructed vast networks of railroads.

What is Andrew Carnegie most well known for?

creating the largest, most powerful companies the world had seen

At the end of the 1800s, the direct effect of more leisure time was that

popular culture began to grow.

The artistic movement that emerged as a result of industrialization was

romanticism

Which of the following did Samuel Morse invent or improve?

the telegraph

The most important result of the Second Industrial Revolution was

turning the United States into a world economic power.


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