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Negative Effects Of The Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial revolution which lasted from the late 1700’s to the mid 1800’s had many effects on the US in the 1700’s, 1800’s, and today. Led by inventors, workers, and big business owners the Industrial revolution in America was a time period were the mechanization of agriculture and textile manufacturing and the revolution of power sources began and innovated the manufacturing possibilities in America. It began with the discovery of new inventions, and affected many people from immigrants and cityfolk to the creators and owners of giant manufacturing companies. Since it has quite a few positives and negatives the discussion of the Industrial revolution in the US and be very split or controversial. The positives include economic growth and opportunity, helped communities, urbanization and negatives include the loss of competition, the effects on workers and conditions, and the loss of caring between social classes. The Industrial revolution had many positive effects. The Industrial revolution had many positive effects on the US and its citizens. One major positive effect of it was how the Industrial revolution is how it gave the US the ability to mass produce manufactured goods inside the US which in turn helped the US economy (Doc 5) and (Doc 3). It boosted the economy, because it increased the amount of people buying things from the US because it was making a lot of products and it increased trade within. A second positive effect on the US was how big businesses and manufacturers in cities would sometimes try to help the community it’s in by building houses and renting them out for cheap and it would employ many people so the size and population of the community would increase, therefore increasing the diversity of it (Doc 2). Since the owner would employ many and the rent was cheap, the workers and their families might have a chance to, if the money is used wisely, increase in amount of money they have and possibly leave and be higher in the social classes because of the industrial revolution. One final but still major positive effect of it was how it caused the flow of people into cities otherwise known as urbanization, which supplied the people needed for the factories and mills and urbanization caused

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