Results of the Industrial Revolution

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Results of the Industrial Revolution
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Speedy Production

• Because of
• Assembly lines
• Interchangeable parts
• Inventions

3
Craftsmen Out

• Products used to be made by individual shop
  owners who were specialists
• Each product was different
• Now products were identical, and made in factories

4
Urbanization

• More and more people moved to cities where there
  were factory jobs
• This was more true of the North than the South
  which remained agricultural

5
Machines In

• Sewing Machines
• Cotton Gin
• Steam power
• Bessemer Steel Process resulted in large sky
  scrapers that could now be built

6
Money Invested

• Stock market invented
• investors would receive a percentage of profits
• New York came stock market center

7
More Workers Together

• People worked in large factories instead of small
  shops
• The workers were exposed to people from different
  cultures
• The working class emerged