The Industrial Revolution

Technological Advances During the Industrial Revolution

During the Industrial Revolution many changes occurred. The most important one was the change in technology and how goods were being produced because of it. Inventions such as the cotton gin, the mechanical reaper, and steam power completely transformed the speed of production and the amount of products that were produced. The industrial revolution that occurred in America almost a century ago totally transformed America’s way of living and thinking forever. The inventions and advances that took place during the industrial revolution still have an affect on America’s society today.

The Industrial Revolution was called a revolution because it changed society both significantly and rapidly. It began in Great Britain one hundred years before it reached the United States. It shifted American society into a modern industrial society, which has never been the same since. Society as a whole changed because now production went from its traditional locations at homes to workshops and factories. A majority of America’s population relocated from the rural countryside to more urban towns and cities because of all the industrialization that was occurring at the time (En