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How Did The Industrial Revolution Change America

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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.
During the revolution many factories popped …show more content…

Shipbuilding was neederd in colonial America and manyBritish vessels in 1775 had been made in North America. Shipyards sometimes had hundreds of employees and a distribution network of international proportions but lacked key elements that would later be associated with the Industrial Revolution: Work was organized around skilled crafts, and power-driven machinery to enhance output was limited. Some buildings in other areas of the economy resembled factories. Lumber mills used power-driven machinery, but often they were small in size, without many employees. A few sugar refineries operated more like later factories of the early national period, but they tended to depend more on manpower than water or steam-generated power. Iron furnaces in the countryside produced a significant amount of iron. Most other manufactured items were either produced in small shops run by artisans or made in the household by women. The significance of household production is often overlooked, but the spinning and weaving of cloth by women became an increasingly major sector of the economy in the last quarter of the 18th century in terms of total output and excess capital earnings for a family, especially in rural

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