10th 4.3

Identify two major effects of new technology on business during the Industrial Revolution.

• Production became faster and less expensive.

• Workers made more money and worked fewer hours.

• The streets were less traveled and cleaner.

Why did big business emerge during the Industrial Revolution?

• Labor unions demanded and won higher wages.

• Governments passed laws regulating monopolies.

• New technologies required the investment of more capital.

How did city life change during the last 1800s and early 1900s?

• Standards of living fell as wages dropped.

• Improved sanitation slowed the spread of disease.

• Neighborhoods became more crowded.

Which development helped improve working conditions in many mines and factories during the late 1800s?

• the growth of labor unions

• the rise of the middle class

• the formation of monopolies

Louis Pasteur helped improve public health by

• finding a cure for tuberculosis.

• applying germ theory to combat disease.