Question

Describe INDUSTRIALIZATION & democratization since the 19th century.

Answer 1

QUICKLY ABOUT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN GENERAL

• Industrial revolution marks the period of development that transformed rural societies into industrialized, urban ones
• Goods that had been previously crafted by hand started to be produced in mass quantities by machines in factories 
• Steam power was the "game-changing" invention that started the Industrial Revolution from Britain

SECOND PERIOD OF INDUSTRIALIZATION

• From the late 19th to early 20th century cities began to grow 
• Rapid advances such as creation of steel, chemicals and electricity helped to mass produce consumer goods and weapons 
• People started to move around with trains, cars and bicycles 
• News spread via papers, radio and telegraph 
• Industrial growth created wealthy entrepreneurs and comfortable middle class supported by workers who were mainly immigrants 

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Answer 2

DEMOCRATIZATION

• A process in which a political regime becomes democratic
• Democracy began to spread widely in the mid-20th century that made democracies the political rule and not the exception which it was before
• The increased interest in democratization among policy makers, activists and academics made it stronger 
• The goal was to increase the respect for human rights and it also gave economic security
• Waves of democracy: 
  • First from 1826 to 1926
  • Second from 1943 to 1962
  • Third from 1974 -> 

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