Effects Of The Industrial Revolution On America

As Stephen Gardiner once said, “The industrial revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.” The Industrial Revolution was in fact an extraordinary jump in the development of the U.S. It created a foundation for what the U.S is today socially, economically, and politically. The Industrial Revolution played a major role in the industrialization and modernization and still has effects to this day. These effects lead to more trade, better transportation, and modernization. It also had had many negative effects on America and England as well. These effects mainly focus on the social side of the Industrial Revolution. These effects include child labor, unfair wage, poor living conditions and poverty. When both the positive and negative effects are put together as a whole, the positive effects outweigh the negative. Mainly because they had a bigger effect on America and the world as a whole, and still affect us today. Because of the Industrial Revolution wages are more fair, living conditions are better, Manufacturing has drastically improved and children are no longer allowed to work in factories.

Throughout the course of the early 1700s and 1900s the world started to become introduced to the production of machinery. Starting in Europe and expanding into the Americas we today classify this era as the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial revolution put the use of hand tools downward while bringing up the use of factory machines. Factory machines by the late 1800s would soon replace farming with manufacturing at a large scale in the nation. This was seen to be a malificent time, for people from all around the world would be drawn to the Americas. Many came in hopes for a new and better life, but with every opportunity you must be ready to endure the burden. America’s revolution would go as far as impacting the aspects of civilization

England's previous success from the Agricultural Revolution gave leeway to the Industrial Revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds. Previous landowners and investors of the Agricultural Revolution were able to start or participate Corporations and Businesses to seek great profit. New machinery and technological innovations were frequent due to the demand for faster, more efficient technology. Working class families, who were arguably the sole reason for the grand success of the Industrial Revolution, moved from their farms into crowded and dirty urban towns to work long hours in harsh factories for little pay in hopes of one day living a decent life, while the middle class gained many luxuries and lived lavish lifestyles

The new industrial America brought changes everyone’s lives in the United States. Lots of new inventions were being invented. The increase in natural resources, creative ideas, and growing markets are what fueled this monumental industrial boost along with technological advancements. The Industrial Revolution in the United States took place in the early 1800’s in the northeast, in the New England region. There are many historical figures to thank for their innovative and revolutionary ideas such as John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison.

The industrial revolution originally started in Great Britain. England’s’ empire was vast, strong and well founded. It also had a massive population who was willing to buy clothes and other textile goods. They found that the easiest and cheapest way to do that was with cotton. How does this lead to the American industrial revolution? Simple. England could not produce their own cotton because of their frigid climate and began to trade with the southern states. Due to this, Americas production of raw cotton went from three thousand bales to three million bales in just seventy years.(citation) (1790-1860) In order to keep up with demand the cotton gin was created and the united states own industrial revolution began.

While the second Industrial Revolution had its successes, such as the creation of new machinery and the assembly line, they came with a cost. The Industrial Revolution actually caused several problems for America such as forcing many people out of jobs, causing poverty, and the pollution produced by the large factories caused damage to the environment. This led to many political reformers wanting change in America. The reformers focused on 4 main goals, cleaning up politics, limiting the power of big businesses, reducing poverty, and promoting social justice. Several different reform groups took the cause to help reform America and to take on problems such as immigration, racial justice, women’s rights, and imperialism.

The Industrial Revolution affected the North, South, West and Midwest with mainly population and economy changes. Since factories were opening up more jobs immigrants migrated to the regions for work. Therefore, increasing the population. Economically, the regions all seemed to use the factory work as a source of income. However, the South used its natural agriculture as a source of income. The regions were also improving the railroad transportation.

The Industrial Revolution was a key factor in the change of the US for the better. There were many people that invented many useful inventions such as the cotton, the steam engine and many others. The revolution had a huge impact on the thinking power of people to invent things or to reinvent other people's inventions that could be changed for the better by making it faster and do more things at once. This Revolution sparked many people in the north and the south to advance their technologies and work hard to better their lives. Inventions such as cotton Gin, Steam engine and various other innovative creations during the late 1700’s and early 1800’ transformed American life in the South and North.

Three technological advances of the Industrial Revolution that profoundly transformed American society were the cotton gin, which made cotton the center of the Southern economy but also solidified the South’s dependence on slavery, the factory system, which established an industrial economy in the North, and the railroad, which connected the nation.

The Industrial Revolution brought about great change in America; it’s considered a revolution as it drastically developed and enhanced the way Americans’ lived their everyday lives. Change was brought about through new technology, new manufacturing methods, and new business models. The advancement and expansion of new technology as a result of the Industrial Revolution had a monumental impact not only on citizens of the United States, but also on the world. Before the construction of the Transcontinental Trail in 1869, transportation across America was slow, inconvenient, and inconsistent.

The Industrial Revolution impacted American society in a multitude of ways. In the midst of all the changes concerning the rights of African-Americans and the ending of the Civil War, America wasn’t ready for what was to come. With all of the adjustments, society had to grow to be able to fit in all of the new developments.

The industrial revolution started in Britain. Inventions of machines started to arise to complete tasks more efficiently and easier. The British industrial revolution led America to its own revolution. America’s transportation revolution greatly changed the future. Steamboats were invented and canals were created for the steamboats to decrease the time spent on travel. Railroads were also extremely important because they were even faster than the newly invented steamboat and twice as fast as a stagecoach. Urban growth also sparked as a result from the transportation revolution. Mass production took America by storm. Wood clocks, farm machinery and sewing machines all had many different parts and with the mass production of interchangeable parts

The time between 1790 and 1830 is what people best known as the industrial revolution. The revolution first began in Britain. Many people say that Samuel Slater is the main person who helped start this fast productivity in America. Slater opened the first mill in 1790. He had worked in a mill in Britain before so he gained ideas and based his mill off the British model. His main accomplishment was that he helped increase the production of cotton thread in the United States. Many say this was the start of the revolution! Although Slater had a big part in the industrial revolution, many other people had part in the revolution. People started using new organization skills, otherwise known as “systems.” The most popular known mill was in Lowell,

The Industrial Revolution brought about an overwhelming amount of economic change to the United States. The first Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain and in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century and, it then spread to the United States and Germany. The Industrial Revolution itself refers to a change from hand and home production to machine and factory (Kelly). During this time period, America was growing in knowledge. The industrialization of America involved three great developments. Transportation was expanded, electricity was effectively harnessed and many improvements were made to several industrial processes (Kelly). Although this change greatly helped the United States economy, it had both a positive and negative impact on the lives of the American people.

America has been expanding and growing since its birth out of Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution has been an influence in the American life since it first in the 1700s. “Most families did not have enough to sell at the market- they had just enough for their own needs.” Up until the factories started booming and employment rates skyrocketed, people really couldn’t become wealthy and live a decent life. As the ways of farming grew the English at the time began to use up more and more land efficiently. “Unusable swamplands could be drained and used for crops.” That’s absolutely amazing that in this era they could turn swamps into areas to raise more crops so they can naturally make more money at the markets and become a bit wealthier. Farming is one of the most important lively hoods of mankind; no matter what argument anyone tries to make. If we didn’t have farming and agricultural production we wouldn’t have all the different sorts of food products we do, nor would they be as abundant. Life would be like it was before the Industrial Revolution came about and most of us would still be growing our own food and barely scraping by in life. With all this agricultural expansion of the time population in England start expanding drastically as well. Thanks to population growth people started to worry more about new inventions and producing stuff for us to make our day to day lives easier than we could have ever before. With all the technological advancements leading up to