The Effects Of Industrialization

The industrial revolution changed the entire outlook on life for the people who lived that period of United States history. They started out as farmers and a family then became slaves of a trade. This is an analysis of the effects caused by the industrialization of the United States after the Civil War reveals the challenge facing its citizens: Accept the selfish and unremorseful behavior of those few who had the wealth to invest or fight to ensure laws were created to protect the people who worked for them.
Men such as: Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Goodyear, Ford, Edison, Bell among many others created industries overnight based on very simple ideas which had never been thought of before. It was this new set of notions that allowed them …show more content…
They were just as lost as the investors with their new found fortune, the public with their new found misery because they were just as lost with a new era of ideas that did not seem to end. Everywhere they looked, someone was coming up with a solution for a need that no one else had seen before. They were faced with masses of victims and the consequences of the actions of a few. Their pockets were lined with the same money as the investors and at the same time they funded many programs trying to grow the country and make it as strong as soon as possible because they were afraid of anyone else coming in to take over the party.
Even the unfortunate, the people at the bottom of the food chain were seeing the benefits of the Industrial Revolution. More products were available to be bought. As a consumer you did not have to leave your town, catalogs were sent to merchant stores who could order things from faraway lands, countries or even continents away. Products became cheaper because more supply lines were available to acquire them and machines also produced more of these products at a much faster rate. The only issue was finding a way of acquiring the money to spend and still be …show more content…
Men took advantage of the less than a century of political experience and became tyrants who could buy and control anything they wished. It took sacrifice, blood, sweat, tears and lives for the general public to show its legislators they needed to stop financing and empowering the ones who were abusing them. It took decades for laws and regulations to catch up to their struggle. Today, more than a hundred and fifty years later we still see the effects of what both sides of this struggle did for our country. Both good or bad, we live with those