Brief Analysis: The Industrial revolution starts
Brief Analysis: The Industrial revolution starts
In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many new ones, including petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, and electrical power, emerged. Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy. Industrial growth transformed American society. It produced a new class of wealthy industrialists and a prosperous middle class.…
How did the Industrial Revolution Change the American Economy Before the Industrial Revolution, the American economy was built on cotton plantations, hand-woven textiles, farming, fishing, and trade. Products were made by hand on farms and in homes. The Industrial Revolution changed how goods were produced which had a major impact on the American Economy both positively and negatively. The invention of machines, water power, and steam engines, for example, led to materials being produced more quickly while reducing the cost of production. Although many changes were being made, the South trailed the growth of the North.…
The American industrial revolution was a time of modern inventions and creativity. Many influential inventions where made during the American industrial revolution that affected America economically, socially, geographical, and politically. One diplomatic invention created during the industrial revolution that had a major impact on communication and economy in America was the typewriter. The typewriter helped people write books, telegrams, letters, and documents, easily and quickly. The typewriter was a brilliant invention that later inspired many other inventors and affected American technological development.…
After industrialization during the 19th century American life was never the same. Political changes included the need for government involvement in a Laissez-faire type of government involvement in business as well as the emerging of new political parties. There were also social changes the most apparent being the increasing gap between the poor and wealthy in the factories. Economics also transformed into big business owners, poor workers and low earning farmers in southern rural areas. The American industrial revolution made major changes to both urban and rural areas in the aspects of political, social and economic life.…
Before 1860 the United States showed an economy markedly divided into three productive zones: the industrial northeast, the southern slave, and the midwest food supply. However, the end of the Civil War was an important economic change, not only because of the economic downturn in the southern plantations but also by the consumer goods industry and the capital goods industry. As a consequential of this, after the Civil War, the Industrialization leaves a grateful economic development, social innovation, and political opportunities in the United States. Industrialization was an important influence to make United States’ economy, due to the union of new entrepreneurs and due to the increase of available employments, become the most powerful in…
The Industrial Revolution started in England because of the extravagant amount of water sources and the country had, it also had a large amount of wool. The changes in farming and the many inventions that were made and the scientific thought put into the inventions greatly impacted the process of industrialization. Having a large amount of water aloud for more factories because they machines in the factories ran on water power. As for wool, farmers went from planting crops to living in the city working in a factory. This change occurred because the people who actually owned the land told the farmers to leave the land because the real owners wanted to raise sheep for wool. Inventions were a big part of the success of the industrialization. The inventions of new machines allowed products to be made quicker which initialed more goods to be bought and traded.…
The American Industrial Revolution was a time period of rapid industrialization in the final part of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Many things were invented in the Industrial Revolution including the automobile. The automobile changed American lives by improving life for a lot of people may it be less time to go to work or to get things transported faster. Many job opportunities were opened for Immigrants, and Middle/Lower Class Americans. Different resources were used to build automobiles like steel, iron, rubber, and wood.…
After America had won the war for independence against England, the new country had to find a way to get its own money. Before America had separated, the crops grown had been sent to England where it was sold. The money used to go to England, but now that America was free, who would the money go to? The years after America first became independent were called the Industrial Revolution which was a period of major industrialization. The Industrial Revolution changed the American economy by bringing most of the wealth to plantation and factory owners.…
The Industrial Revolution was a great leap in the advancement of society and technology. The transition from an agricultural to a rapid industrialization took over more than a century in the US. According to the article Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution, states that the Industrial Revolution “entered its first phase from the 1790s through the 1830s”. The First Industrial Revolution transformed the daily lives of the Americans in great and important ways that would change America for the better. In this case I would say that the First Industrial Revolution was the most important event in US history from the 1700s to the1900s.…
The Industrial Revolution was a transformation in Great Britain during the 18th and 19th century that involved great innovations in technologies, manufacturing, agriculture, and transportations. Changes in government, society, and trade also proved that the Industrial Revolution was a period of time where new ideas thrived and that countries around the world were greatly affected. The immense growth in population, which mainly consisted of workers and laborers, the effective waterways and abundant natural resources, and the political stability of Great Britain all caused the country to become the very first one to experience an Industrial Revolution.…
The Industrial Era took place between the 18th and 19th century in rural locations in Europe and America. It started in Britain when inventions such as the steam engine and cotton gin. Before the era started, most manufacturing occurred in people’s home, making one product at a time. This now evolved into factories that mass produce with machinery. Iron and textile industries boomed in popularity and income, making money off the public in record speed.…
The American Revolution occurred in the years of 1775-1783. This revolution was what made America it’s own country, no longer under British rule. It began when the colonists were outraged when British authorities decided to increase the colony’s taxes, therefore, increasing British revenue. Such attempts are known as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Tariffs of 1767. Because of this, the colonists began to engage in protests that soon turned violent when they felt that they were not being represented equally, hence no taxation without representation.…
America is a great country. America’s industrialization is to thanks for that. American Industrialization helped boosted America to the top by furthering the production and development of machinery. People also had the same effect on the Industrialization. People also had the same effect on the Industrialization.…
During the American Industrial Revolution that occurred in the 1800s, new technology and inventions were created, revolutionizing America. America's industrialization is referred to as a revolution because it's development of transportation, mass production, and immigration revolutionized America both economically and socially. Amid the 1800s, the US government encouraged the production of a transcontinental railroad by granting land to railroad companies. By 1869 a message could be sent from New York to San Francisco in 7 days. This transportation improvement allowed cattle to be sent from the West to meat packaging districts in the Midwest, then to the East for consumption without the meat going bad.…
The Industrial Revolution transformed America in many ways. One way is through communication, which is where the telegraph/morse code came in. The morse code was very useful between contacting different countries to the U.S. The morse code also revolutionized long-distance communication and helped grow the U.S. The morse code impacted our society by allowing us to get closer and become allies with other countries and it impacted our economy by being able to send and negotiate trade with other parts of the world much better. Another way the Industrial Revolution transformed America is through transportation. Some transportation idea’s that were invented during the revolution were steamboats, railroads, and canals. The steamboat were boats that…