... system of electric telegraph stations set up across the nation (Encarta Encyclopedia, 6). With the approval having telegraph stations the communication was much faster. This was also a beneficial effect for the Industrial Revolution in the US. By 1861, the Western Union company had installed a total of seventy-six thousand miles of telegraph lines (Kuzirian, 51). Many of these lines were strung along the railroad ... . It also created many jobs for people. Most of the women at this time were unemployed but the telephone companies hired them for phone operators (Industrial Revolution in U...

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... business. Before and at the beginning of the revolution the Household system was consistently used. However, as the revolution progressed workers and their machinery moved from individual homes into one large building. This movement is what began the idea of the factory system. In 1790, Samuel Slater started the first efficient factory in America. In this factory, he began to spin cotton thread ... , Eli Whitney came up with the idea of interchangeable parts. This would make the assembly-line system a lot more efficient. Banks were of extreme importance in the American Industrial Revolu...

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... business. Before and at the beginning of the revolution the Household system was consistently used. However, as the revolution progressed workers and their machinery moved from individual homes into one large building. This movement is what began the idea of the factory system. In 1790, Samuel Slater started the first efficient factory in America. In this factory, he began to spin cotton thread ... , Eli Whitney came up with the idea of interchangeable parts. This would make the assembly-line system a lot more efficient. Banks were of extreme importance in the American Industrial Revolu...

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... This encouraged investment. Eventually, newer commercial entrepreneurs would build and operate factories, foundries, and railroads. The beginning of the Industrial Revolution produced growth in many fields such as agricultural, textile, clothing and fabrics, etc. It was a manufacturing economy, which is also a surplus economy. In this type a economy a person's productive labor needs to produce more than they need to keep life and the cycle ... increase need or demand for operators. These and other advances or devices led to the building of large textile factories, which created enormous o...

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... positive outcomes of the Industrial Revolution that effected the country. Even as this was occurring, workers were looking to find a way out of this crowded country. The Industrial Revolution caused some to get wealthy while others lived in poverty and hunger. Many looked to the vast and mostly empty of the New Worlds(U.S., Canada, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand). In these new countries there ... were plenty of jobs in mills, coal mines, and on the western fronts. Many found farm ... land which was still cheap and therefore there was clean water and food to be eaten. Also man...

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With the spawn of the industrial revolution in the 19th century came a new sense of economic competition. With modern innovations in transportation and manufacturing, the countries of Germany, Japan, and the United States seemed to evolve to the next level. This step up the evolutionary ladder was lead by the spirit ... strive for technology with the development of the cotton gin in the 1820's and the sewing machine in the 1870's. The development of arms and interchangeable parts created a monopoly in many production areas that enabled them to advance quickly. The increasingly larger compani...

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... United States, where it facilitated the westward expansion of that rapidly expanding country. By the 1850s most of today's railway network in Britain was already in place, and entrepreneurs found new foreign markets for their locomotives and tracks in India and Latin America. The new locomotives quickly superseded the canal system of Britain and the United Stated which had been built mostly since the ... 1750s as the favored means of transporting raw materials and bulk goods between industrial cities. Until the coming of the steam-powered train, these canals had ... became the "worksho...

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... and what it meant to society is explained in great detail in the book Sweetness and Power by Sidney W. Mintz. The book made the connection that sugar helped spark the creation of capitalism, which led to the eventual beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Despite the horrible treatment of the people, it did spark the Industrial Revolution which is responsible for much advancement involving efficiency ... , speed, and quality in modern business practices. Also as terrible as it is slavery was one of the main basis's on which America was founded on. Besides taking Africans from their ... ...

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... ; and in more than one case it served as a catalyst of violence for the United States. Whether it was social or individual, fear had an impact on the events that took place throughout time. This industrial revolution included the emergence of new technologies which expanded economic production. The development of mechanization instituted fear among America's laborers. ... Not only was mechanization displacing workers to factory positions and creating a "technological unemployment-, it was also subjecting laborers to harsh working conditions for comparatively less pay. In 1889 David A. We...

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... war achieved independence from Great Britain by the colonies. Second, the newly created United States of America established a republican form of government, in which power resided with the people. The revolution had many causes. Long-term social, economic, and political changes in the colonies before 1750 provided the basis for an independent nation with representative political institutions. More immediately ... created a stronger central government. #5 Hamilton vs. Jefferson Economical Views Hamilton 1. Believed in a public debt 2. Wanted to create a national bank to provide loans for...

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... Schlesinger described the considerable disunity among the colonies. Each colony pursued its own ends. b. Economy and Government i. The slave economy of the South and the growing industrial manufacturing economy of the North ensured a divergence in government. c. Social Class i. All the Southern colonies seemed to have a social class structure. Social hierarchy is a very common aspect of society. The colonists, ... the various passing of Britain's Acts, due to England's debt. This further strengthened their objection against Britain. Colonists were once again discovering their identity as...

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... dropped from the sky. They are in the land, but not yet an integral part of it. The population product is artificial and exotic. It is as yet unrelated to its physical environment." Immigrants came for many reasons, but the Industrial Revolution caused America to look very attractive to people ... down on their luck. "Immigration has been largely the response to an active demand for labor in America." In Europe many people, faced with poverty and unable to find work, ... paying very little, became readily available. Factories had horrible working conditions, but that didn't seem to stop ...

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... the new labor government of 1997, they elect party like this with an enormous majority so that they can implement. Their policies, this is the opposite to the what happened in America when Clinton was elected because he had such a small majority he was unable to actually make any of his policy's executed. The key to these one party dictatorships is that ... was to consolidate and increase the comparative advantage Britain had gained over the other European nations thanks to the industrial revolution. But, as Karl Polanyi showed, there was nothing natural about the establishment of free ...

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... the new labor government of 1997, they elect party like this with an enormous majority so that they can implement. Their policies, this is the opposite to the what happened in America when Clinton was elected because he had such a small majority he was unable to actually make any of his policy's executed. The key to these one party dictatorships is that ... attempt to monitor emails. The American system puts individual state law over federal law; this is another of their safeguards from tyrannical government. This would not be so practical in Britain however because of the size of the c...

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... Great Depression had decimated the independent middle classes, the small businesspeople and farmers who had been the bulwark of self-government. Roosevelt redefined democracy for a mass society of industrial workers. He incorporated the wage-earning masses into the nation's political life by supporting the growth of trade unionism. Government, through New Deal laws like the Wagner Act ... for a changed concept of the duty and responsibility of government toward economic life." That responsibility, New Dealers argued, could be carried out only by a leadership capable of circumventing Amer...

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... America suffered a lot fewer casualties than the other nations. In addition, unlike the economies of many European countries, the American economy remained strong until 1929. Unlike Europe, the United States had come out of World War I with a dynamic industrial ... economy. Adding to that the United State's Allies owed them huge sums of money, and these loans more than canceled out America's prewar debt of $4 billion. The war had transformed the United States from a debtor nation, which owed money, into a creditor nation, to which money was owed. The action of the war had shattered Euro...

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