Speech

Ryan McNeil

Dr. Charles Roberts

HIS105

23rd March 2016

Impact of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was consequential to one of the most insightful blessings in the history of American citizens. It influenced so much of humanity and quickly brushed all the way through our strong nation. To this day, the Industrial Revolution is still in full throttle. For over 250 years, our lives as Americans have altered due to industrialization. The Industrial Revolution gave us technological and economic advantages that made our society sufficient. Much opportunity was available for people once the Industrial Revolution came about. It became a balance between the amount of work and the amount of people willing to work. Work became easier and more comfortable for many workers. The Industrial Revolution that occurred in America from 1750-1830 affected the economy, technology, and society of the entire world.

The United States was well known as an agricultural nation but soon it was transformed into a highly industrialized profitable nation. Most of work before the machines came along came from manual labor such as handwork, etc. These industry workers were extremely crafty when it came to handling machines. A large proportion of workers before the Industrial Revolution tended to be farmers and sharecroppers. The Industrial Revolution gave this group of workers the greatest impact when you look at everything that was improved. The Industrial Revolution was the distribution of technological mechanics and the distribution of resources.

With the new agricultural inventions that were invented it gave room for improvement in many different suffering industries.

Many improvements in farming machinery came around during late 1790s. One of the most influential inventions that came from the agricultural industry was the small invention of the cotton gin. It was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney. Even though it was seen as a positive; it also had it downfalls....