The Industrial Revolution came with great economic development for the United States. Taking place in the 18th to 19th centuries, what you found for the most part was agricultural, rural societies in Europe and America advancing to industrial and urban societies. Preceeding to the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often accomplished in the home's of the people, with basic machines and hand tools. Economic development marked a change to powered, specific machinery, and large factories to provide mass production. The iron and textile trades, along with the development of the steam engine, played key roles for this era. While industrialization proved to be beneficial for some, for others it resulted
