In 1820, a total of 58 towns with a population of more than 2,500 made up America. ... Their plan was to take advantage of the running water to power their machines. ... Some businesses ended up moving closer to locations where their product would be better suited to its customers. [1] A great invention that was commercially used during the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine. ... The two classes that were prominent during this time were the working, middle and upper. ... Fewer disease were developed that allowed them to have a longer lifespan than those of the working class. [4] The ...

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The Industrial Revolution In order to fully understand the causes of the Industrial Revolution you must first understand what it was. ... This dependency upon the land and nature also meant that people had very little to do during the often long and hard winter months. ... Developed to take advantage of the farmers' free time, the cottage industry produced high-quality low-priced textiles by subcontracting the work to the otherwise unemployed farmers during the winter months. ... It should also be noted that Britain's industrial development, unlike many other countries, wa...

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Towards the beginning of the 20th century an amazing thing happened which boosted our economy yet caused much chaos throughout America, The Industrial Revolution. This revolution was started by many people and new inventions which helped the business world and economy greatly, but for every good aspect of the revolution, there were two bad aspects. I am going to talk about what some of these aspects were and the people who tried to help change these conditions and problems many faced during the industrial era. ... The Pullman Strike, as one author puts it; " was especially impo...

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