The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the same time that Europe was under going a revolution, America underwent an Industrial revolution where they went from being mostly agricultural society to an industrial society; eventually making us the greatest industrial nation in the world today. Between 1860 and 1900, the amount of coal produced in America increased by 2000% and the production of steel increased by 5000%! The population in urban areas went up 5 fold. Miles of railroad tracks increased six times. How did such a tremendous change occur in such a short time and why?

From 1861 to 1885, the Republican Party was the governing body in the politics in the United States. From the presidency, into Congress, their platform was pro-industry. They wanted Liberal immigration, a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, and an adjustment on tariffs.

Production also went up because of more workers. New workers came from two main sources; the first source is from many Americans who owned farms and made money from the crops they grew were working in factories. The second gro

Before the Industrial Revolution, workers had a personal and relaxed workplace that valued an artisan’s skills. After the development of factories, the assembly line, and mass production things radically changed. People were assigned just one step in manufacturing and had to work under the clock. Labor unions started being established after there were many battles between management and the labor force. An example of one of these disagreements was the Great railroad strike of 1877. When railroads cut wages, a strike spread quickly across 11 states shutting down 2/3 of the country’s rail track. President Rutherford B. Hayes used federal troops to decrease the uproar of rebellion among the workers. This led way for many workers to form unions. The first attempt to organize all workers in all states, both skilled and unskilled was the Nation Labor Union. Another that was only open to skilled workers who formed individual craft unions that became the American Federation of Labor, which still exist today. The Unions were responsible for several strikes. A union called the Knights of Labor, trying to achieve the goal of an 8 hour work day, led 80,000 workers, and held a meeting on which came to be called May Day. When Chicago police arrived, someone threw a bomb ki

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