The Pros And Cons Of The Industrial Revolution

During the time of the mid 19th century the American market was booming. After the recent purchase of the Louisiana Territory, many people began migrating in the westward direction. People began migrating into areas that would become the states of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan making these states proliferate. The making of the Industrial Revolution was not an easy start but once going it signaled a domino effect helping the Transportation and the Market Revolutions explode.
The explosion of the Industrial Revolution benefitted society by making millions of jobs. These millions were created by factories and careers such as mining, textiles, blasting tunnels for the railroad, and building roads (“Industrial Revolution”). Considering

The oversaturation meant that if one person was not up to standard or the expectations of the bosses of the company that the person would be replaced by another. Among these employees in the workplace, for the first time, women were present. Most women worked in textile factories such as the Lowell Textile Company. The women and young girls that would work at Lowell would receive room and board along with $.75 a week (“Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls”). Many of the factories in the Industrial Revolution had many unsafe conditions that would not be acceptable today: such as dark rooms with little to no windows, no sanitary conditions, hot, crowded, and disease spread quickly (“Jessica’s Notebook”). Several of the factories had something along the lines of an assembly line: meaning that one person did one job continuously until the end of their shift. Companies such as slaughterhouses took advantage of the assembly line and used it for the sake of being a more effective way than everyone slaughtering their own animal. Considering ideas, such as the assembly line, made products easier to make, which dropped the costs of the goods making it a cheaper item on the market so more people would buy it (“Jessica’s Notebook”). Although many people moved into

Transportation would be increased greatly in the fact of, before railroads and steamboats goods would have to be shipped by horse and carriage across the country. As one could imagine, this took a lot longer than a train. As the demand for products rose because of the westward expansion the country had to find a way to satisfy the needs. Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston came together to find a way to satisfy the needs of getting goods down the Mississippi River to a place where they could be distributed to the rest of the world creating the steamboat (“Jessica’s Notebook”). Steamboats were not just used to travel the Mississippi River to New Orleans, they were used throughout the rest of the country but to compensate for the large boats the country had to build canals (“History of Technology and Work”). Canals are man-made aqueducts that act as rivers to connect two waterways to one another (“Jessica’s Notebook”). The Erie Canal was made in 1825, connecting the Hudson River to Lake Erie to make New York an even bigger trading port than it already was connecting New York to New Orleans, two of America’s biggest trading ports at the time (“The Market Revolution”). The Transportation Revolution was not just on water, it also transformed the roads into a more convenient way to travel. Before this time, the roads were just dirt roads