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How Did The Industrial Revolution Affect Society

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During the end of the eighteenth century a revolution unlike any seen by American swept America introducing the civilization to modern machinery and transition to a new manufacturing process. The Industrial Revolution is a “name given to movement in which machines changed people’s way of life as well as their methods.” The origin of the movement started from The Great Britain which affected the entire manufacturing process and life of American. The revolution did not only bring changes to manufacturing process, modern machinery but also caused a pool of immigrants migrate to America. Initiating from Great Britain into Western Europe and to the United States the actual effects of revolution took it effect differently on different section of society. Like any other revolution the industrial era brought both positive and negative impact on America and life of average citizen. To discuss the consequence of revolution one must compare and contrast the pre-industrialization era with the industrial revolution.
Historian have pointed the three major changes brought about the Industrial Revolution:
(a) invention of machines to do hand’s job;
(b) the adoption of factory systems;
(c) and the introduction of the steam engine.
Prior to American Industrial Revolution the Americans were living in isolated agricultural household, scattered in little town only interconnected by wagons. The revolution transformed the rural agricultural society to centralized market system in large

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