The Industrial Revolution was a crucial and historic period of financial movement manifested by the onset of mass production, enhanced transportations, and the industrialized factory system (Bodenner). This led to philosophical, thoughtful social changes in United States history and it also led to large companies building up colossal wealth and political influence. Farmers moved from rural areas to prospering cities, in search of work, while immigrants from Northern and Central Europe, East Asia, and several from Southern Europe moved to the U.S in search of larger and greater economic opportunities (Bodenner). This provided the U.S with cheap labor because the immigrants that were pouring in from all over the world worked for almost nothing,
