Industrial Revolution In America

The industrial revolution began with the agricultural revolution where new farming methods were invented such as crop rotation. Through the agricultural revolution the enclosure movement began. The enclosure movement pushed smaller farmers off their land and they were forced to work as wage laborers for various landowners or to go to the growing cities. The enclosure movement helped to increase food production and with more food came an increase of the population. When the population began to increase the textile industry took off. There were many inventions that modernized textile manufacturing including: the flying shuttle was used to weave cloth, the spinning jenny allowed for multiple threads to be woven together, the water frame used water …show more content…
Samuel slater emigrated America; he built a spinning machine similar to those in Britain. A year after his arrival the first factory opened in Rhode Island. During the 1820’s factories became normal in many northern towns. America and Britain experienced many of the same problems during the industrial revolution such as poverty, crime and pollution. The United States had regional differences between the north and the south in regards to industry. The north had more factories, high tariffs, majority skilled workers and trains. They north were able to mass produce because of their population and amount of factories. The south had farms and they had to depend more on agriculture. With the help of mining companies the railways helped America to grow economically. Systems such as communications and banking progressed during the industrial …show more content…
Some positive effect that occurred because of the industrial revolution is trains, new jobs, and a massive food supply. Some negative effects that occurred are child labor, urbanization, new technology that took peoples jobs, over population, poor sanitation, the rich got richer and the poor even poorer. More than 15% of Britain’s work force was children; they used children in factories to do some of the jobs that adults couldn’t do because of their size. Children were either paid less than adults or not at all this was a huge danger for children. Like Britain’s cities Americas continued to be impacted by lack of housing and lack of jobs increased which followed in poverty and lead to increased crime rate. A sanitation system was not yet developed which made poor sanitation a big danger that caused many diseases (cholera, typhoid, infectious hepatitis, polio, cryptosporidiosis, and ascariasis) all caused by drinking water. An effect that was caused by the industrial revolution in japan was Japan became progressive and westernize. Germany gained a strong government, resources and became one of the strongest economies. Two economic systems capitalism and communism began to rise. Capitalism believes in individual ownership and competition. The theory is that when everyone is selfish, it benefits everyone. Adam smith is “the” capitalist (wrote wealth of nations).Somethings about capitalism are freedom, choice, you can work