A Detailed Analysis of the Rise of the American Industrial Revolution

This essay provides a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the American Industrial Revolution, examining the key events, figures, and factors that contributed to its development. It discusses the transition from a work-based industry to a mechanized assembling type, influenced by events suc...Read More

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The Industrial Revolution occurred over a century, which brought about changes in
the production lines. The alterations in transportation, assembling, and correspondences,
brought about modifications in the American lifestyle, which is reflected through the U.S.
history1. The Industrial Revolution comprised of a move which ignited in the United States
and transited the era from an industry which was work based in nature to a specialised and
mechanized assembling type. This was in relation to the material assembling required with
respect to the United States as by the War of 18122.
Industrialization developed in the years following the Civil War and the
Reconstruction time. Before the Civil War, America was viewed as the place that is known
for fresh chances to succeed. Western development and the faith in the Manifest Destiny of
America urged individuals to have the mettle to move to new, undeveloped terrains and
procure property empowering them to construct another life. There are many social and
industrial factors that made introduction of industrialization possible in the United States.
According to Foner (2013), these included the natural resources of the state, the new means
of transportation, mechanization and as well as the economic system of free enterprise and
laissez-faire. Hence, the given essay will be following a structured format whereby the rise of
the American Industrial Revolution will be discussed in details. The American Industrial
revolution bought about a huge changes in the given economy of the country and its rise and
impacts along with the events which took place will be reviewed accordingly.
1 Shi, David E., and George Brown Tindall. America: A narrative history. WW Norton & Company, 2016.
2 Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, Volume I. Vol. 11.
McGraw-Hill, 2015.

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Thesis Statement: The primary objective of the essay is to highlight the manner in which the
American Industrial revolution took place and to examine the different events which occurred
during the rise of the event and how these changes had an impact on the economy of
America.
The period of reconstruction in the nineteenth century experienced a massive change
in the systems of the businesses through the development of the modern economy. The
expansion of the businesses and initiation of new line of business ventures are dependent on
the advancements in mechanical systems by the late nineteenth centuries3.The mechanical
advancements in the late nineteenth centuries have contributed to the growth of the
businesses. The advancement in the technologies has resulted to the technological
progression and motorization, which has fostered the continuous growth of the American
organizations 4.The different progressive activities that aware undertaken by the white
Americans posed a threat on the wellbeing of the Natives of the nation. It has resulted to Civil
War, which brought about significant amount of change in the American culture. The
development of the nation was based on the changes in the technological aspects with gave
rise to heavy industrialization and capitalization. It resulted to the sustainable growth of the
business.
Another American Mosaic was being made by the Foreigners who descended from
parts of the world like Mexico, Asia, Europe and America (Central), they stated another
scenario. Additionally, the intensity of the Anglo-Saxon Protestants began to fade.
The things that were described as the progress, however, others respected with misgiving. In
3 Mathias, Peter. The first industrial nation: The economic history of Britain 1700–1914. Routledge, 2013.
4 Clapp, Brian William. Environmental History of Britain since the Industrial Revolution, An. Routledge, 2014.

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the view of Hartwell (2017), the family cultivates were disturbed by modernization and the
nations ranchers were called upon to sort the different challenges. More than that, the social
issues related to the mechanical advancement of the country was powered and the national
workers conflicts and guilds amongst the different work and capital was raised. This led to
the considerations of various governmental officials and the reformers who began to
challenge the different legislative issues as present with respect to the other developments.
Other than this, the primary cause of the revolution can be stated to the Act of Embargo in
1897 and the War of 1812. The American vendor ships from the Embargo Act of 1807, were
disallowed from leaving the ports and the different vessels were restricted from conducting
business of the American ports. This can be stated to be a result of the wars related to
Napoleon amongst the countries of England and France. It was assumed, the countries of
France along with the England would have been disconnected from the American market
which would have then lead to issues. The British Barricade of the States coastline in the east
was promoted by the War of 1812, which gave away angling and transporting them to a stop.
The American centres were cut off from the ocean and they began concentrating on the goal
of profit to produce the goods which could not be passed beyond the exchange5.
Samuel Slater stated that began to work at the cotton mill in England from ten years
of age, came to learn that the Americans was interested in the modern and innovative
techniques of the industrial revolution. He was interested in the techniques as it was illegal to
export the designs of the country to some other countries. He began to remember the designs
and fled to New York without any legal connotation. Another personality, Moses Brown who
is a main Rhode Island industrialist, endeavoured to work in factory with a 32-shaft outline in
5 Mantoux, Paul. The industrial revolution in the eighteenth century: An outline of the beginnings of the modern
factory system in England. Routledge, 2013.

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Pawtucket, yet he proved to be unable. It was then at that time when the Slater proposed to
offer his administrations, thereby promising and ensuring to recreate the British outlines for
the use of Brown and after an underlying speculation as made by Brown to propose to Slater
in order to satisfy beginning necessities, the factory effectively began the operations in the
year 1793 being the primary water-controlled roller turning material plant in Americas. In
1800, the factory of Slater had been copied by numerous different business visionaries as
Slater became wealthier and his methods more mainstream, which provide him with the name
of the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" as given by Andrew Jackson in the
U.S., yet in addition the chosen name "Slater the Traitor" was given by many people in the
Great Britain who had the perception that he deceived them to the country of American6.
During the first period of industrialization, a famous merchant named “Francis Cabot
Lowell”, memorised the designs of the machines meant for the manufacturing of textile. He
later on realised that there would be high demand the goods that were made in the local
market as importing of the goods from other countries were barred by the “Embargo Act of
1807”. After returning to the United States, he set up the “Boston Manufacturing Company”
that was capable of employing the then famous “Lowell System”. This system spearheaded
the utilization of a vertically coordinated system. Here there was finished control over all
parts of creation. Turning, weaving, kicking the bucket, and cutting were presently finished in
a solitary plant. This vast measure of control made it so no other organization could meddle
with creation. The Waltham process likewise spearheaded the procedure of large scale
manufacturing. This incredibly expanded the size of assembling. Water controlled line shafts
and belts currently associated many electrical cables. The expansion in assembling happened
so quickly that there was no restricted work supply in the mid nineteenth century that could
6 Morris, Anthony Edwin James. History of urban form before the industrial revolution. Routledge, 2013.

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have gotten the job done7. This problem was solved by Lowell by engaging the women into
the jobs. This system and the actions acted as a response to the poor working conditions that
he workers had to undergo in England.
The company introduced by Francis Cabot Lowell became greatly effective and
amazingly beneficial, particularly in light of the fact that his rivals kept on utilizing work
concentrated techniques while he utilized the motorized turning reprise. Water online and
jenny for the purpose of a business development. The Boston Manufacturing Company along
with Lowell created the framework which assisted them. For example, vertical mix along
with large scale manufacturing, discovered imitations the nation over as the United States
perceived the requirement for monetary autonomy and modern improvement in the rise of the
Act of Embargo 1807, which featured the nation's long haul dependence on the Empire of the
British for the exchange of vital refined assets. As it turned out to be simple and it was
clarified the United States too had depended quite vigorously on outside refinement of assets,
other small industrialists tried their best to capitalize the new evolved industry and motorized
refinement and transportation, in this manner definitely expanding the monetary freedom of
the U.S. for the refinement of asset and powering of the war exertion against the British8.
These were assembled and presented along with the improvement of the transport of
rail and the steamboats, taking into account the marvel of increased urbanization to start
which expanded the work constrain accessible near the bigger urban communities, for
7 Luna, Erich Daniel. "Fukuyama, Francis. Political Order and Political Decay. From the Industrial Revolution
to the Globalization of Democracy. Nueva York: Farrar, Strauss y Giroux, 2014, 658 pp." Economía 37.74: 280-
282.
8 Hawken, Paul, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural capitalism: The next industrial revolution.
Routledge, 2013.

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example, Chicago and the city of New York, enhancing the exemplary American work
deficiencies of the period. In a similar manner, this took into consideration the faster
development of assets and products around the nation, radically expanding exchange
productivity and yield, while taking into consideration a wide range of base related to
transport for the United States in order to overcome the impacts of the latter Industrial
Revolution.
Industrialization did not take place on a massive scale in the United States until the
set-up of the two textile mills by the famous industrialists Samuel Slater and Francis Cabot
Lowell during the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19thcentury. The revolution
originated in England. After the setup of these two textile mills, several large-scale textile
mills and other industries were established in the region during the same period. The main
cause of the revolution was the Embargo Act of 1807 in which the American ships were
disallowed from leaving for remote ports and restricted outside vessels from doing American
products of American ports. Another cause being the War of 1812 which had an adverse
impact as it compelled the barricade belonging to the British of the U.S coastlines in the east
and which conveyed transporting and angling to a stop.
Hence, from the given analysis on the different events which took place in the
Industrial revolution can be stated to have a huge impact on the overall economy as well as
society of America. The revolution brought a huge change in the way business took place and
inculcated a new way of life. The essay examined the different events which took place in the
country during the time when the Industrial revolution occurred and also stated how this was
resisted by a few but later on accepted by all as a key event in the history of America.

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