Almost two decades after the death of Abraham Lincoln, America had become the first manufacturing nation of the world. America had been building a manufacturing economy since the beginning of the 19th century, and Prior to the civil war America had established well before. Ultimately, a wide variety of factors that led to the Transformation of the national economy of America (Industrial growth), such as important new technologies being developed in America and Europe, new forms of corporate organization, mass immigration from the country side of the United Sates. The Industrial revolution was a transition from old to new manufacturing processes. The major factors that contributed to the Industrial growth were abundant raw materials, large and growing labor supply, Industrial technologies such as steel production. All in all, the Industrial Revolution was mostly bad, because it negatively affected workers and majority of Americans, caused rebellion in America, but as a positive technological advancement such as steel production helped America advance in transportation. The Industrial Revolution had some positives but, had some negatives also, such as creating bad working conditions for Workers. Workers worked in factories and or industries such as the steel production industry run by Henry Bessemer and …show more content…
During the Industrial Revolution immigrants from Northern Europe, Ireland, England, Italians Russians and Greeks etc., came to the United states to join the industrial work force and escape poverty. As a result, the immigrants such as low paid Greeks and Poles started to take the position of British workers and Irish workers who received higher income. Because of this income and occupation became based on ethnicity, which led to ethnic tensions because the lower paid immigrants were becoming a major source of industrial labor rather than higher paid