Industrialisation
What Industrialisation means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Rapid industrialisation in late nineteenth-century America drove the growth of big business, with corporations dominating industries like steel and oil.
The shift from an agrarian society to a manufacturing powerhouse, centralising work in factories.
Topics that use Industrialisation
- Period Study: The Making of America, 1789–1900 (OCR GCSE)
- Thematic Study: The People’s Health, c.1250 to present (OCR GCSE)
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- Cultural beliefs and scientific progress
- Cultural shifts in science and religion
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