2nd Industrial Revolution

Thomas Edison created the first commercially practical...

• lightbulb
• engine
• assembly line
• railroads

An "engine type fired by oil and gasoline"

• mass production
• internal-combustion
• Bessemer process
• incandescent lightbulb

production in large quantities, usually by machinery

• mass production
• assembly line
• Bessemer process

arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in whichwork passes from worker to worker in a direct line until theproduct is assembled

• assembly line
• Bessemer process
• mass production

Why did steel, electricity, chemicals, and petroleum take the place of textiles, railroads, iron,and coal in making the Second Industrial Revolution successful?

• Textiles, railroads, iron, and coal no longer existed during the Second Industrial Revolution.
• Steel, electricity, chemicals, and petroleum were needed to make businesses more productive.
• Railroads and coal stopped working as well as they had previously, and textiles and iron were no longer useful at all.
• People wanted steel, electricity, chemicals, and petroleum because they were new.

The advanced industrialized core of Europe depended on nonindustrial, agricultural countries of Europe for...

• technological assistance
• workers.
• food and raw materials
• capital.

Many workers reacted to poor working conditions by...

• quitting their jobs.
• organizing to pass laws or make reforms.
• buying the factories and changing them.
• refusing to work and living on welfare.

"movement for women’s rights"

• feminism
• leisure
• suffrage
• universal education

"the right to vote"

• feminism
• leisure
• suffrage
• universal education

"activities people did after work"

• feminism
• leisure
• suffrage
• universal education