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The Industrial Revolution in North America Essay

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The Industrial Revolution in North America The industrial revolution started around 1750. It began in Britain and it spread through out the World. England was known as “the world’s workshop” because at that point in time, England was the major manufacturing center of the World.(Bailey) It took about ten years for the industrial revolution to spread to other places. It spread to America. The Industrial Revolution was favorable to the American colonies by bringing the factory system to America, supplying more employment which increased urban growth, and raising the national economy. The factory system was the key to the industrial revolution. The factory system was a combination of …show more content…

They produced most of there own things including food, clothes, fuel and furniture. Extra money came from selling of surplus goods and it was spent on things like coffee and tea. “Land-starved descendents of land-starved peasants were not going to coop themselves up in smelly factories when they might till their own acres in God’s fresh air and sunlight.”(Bailey) Farmers did not want to move into a big city because they liked it were they were even though there was a lot of jobs that the revolution brought. Even though farmers were reluctant to move, they did. They did this because they could make more money. The farmers were to far away from the factories to go back in forth every day so they had to move into the cities were the factories were located in the cities. This moving of people from the country to the city caused a rapid urban growth. Cities were becoming larger and population was rising. Cities were now becoming the place to live.(Vialls) The industrial revolution also caused the national economy to rise. The jobs were being filled and the factories were producing a lot of products. Because more products were being made, there was more to trade with other countries, which made more money for the economy. The factories were trading with other countries at a massive rate. North America began to make so many products and trading them that in the 19th

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