American Industrialization In The Late 1800s

The Industrialization of American began in the early 1800’a when Samuel Slater brought new manufacturing technologies from Britain to the U.S. and founded the first U.S. Cotton Mill in Massachusetts. However, the period following the civil war changed the industry immensely, especially due to the creativity of American Inventors. Innovations in transportation such as the rail road, the size of the American market due to the use of an abundance of raw materials, and incredibly versatile inventors, such as Thomas Alva Edison, who made appealing new products available for good prices, were incredibly creative in their inventions, contributing to the efficiency of American Industrialization in the late 19th century.
The invention of the railroad system made huge contributions to the rapid pace of American Industrialization in the late
People who were able to make an appealing new product available for a good price, while utilizing the cheap transportation system, truly made a great income at this time. Industrialists refined the pre-Civil War “American System” of using specialized machinery to make interchangeable parts. In addition, there was a great incentive to invent machines to save money because they were able to replace expensive skilled labor with unskilled workers. With the mass of immigrants in the US at the time, unskilled workers were plentiful and readily available. Furthermore, an abundance of raw materials, the basis of industrialization allowed for transportation and work forces to improve, which contributed to the great speed of industrialization in the US at the time. Without raw materials such as coal and cotton, factories would be much less efficient in making and selling their production. Additionally, coal, iron, and oil helped the railroads run effectively, which was used for transporting and connecting all these newly industrialized