HIST 2200Y Lecture 6: Lecture 6 - Second Industrial Revolution (Oct. 30)
26 Feb 2016
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Commune first socialist government ever, ended with thousands of french people executed and paris in flames. Great economic growth and change after the memory of the commune. Markets became integrated, free exchange and trade. Governments played an important role by implementing laws to change the way businesses were run (allowing people to be safer with their money their companies could become bankrupt although they themselves could not) Companies controlling whole sectors of the economy. New products were introduced to change the way people live, examples: the typewriter, telephone (scottish canadian alexander bell), the internal combustion engine (cars) Karl benz in 1885 makes a workable gas engine. Electricity becomes widely used, allowed people to work into the night, made night life possible, made walking the streets safe. Eiffel tower was built, age of engineering wonder, people could go to the top in. Boats were moving 2 million people per year, moving food and people.
