The industrial revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 were changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportaion, and technology had a profound effect on the social economic and cultural conditions of the times. Important inventions, the cotton gin a great effect on the production of clothing and what cotton was a part of, the telephone, the telegraph allowed for messages to be sent in matters of seconds, steam boats, changed the way goods were transported, electtic lighting it allowed people to have it in their homes instead of using fire. The railroads was one of the major changes of the dynamic of the US allowed thing to be moved to a lot of different places and it allowed for west ward expasion. Andrew Carnigne was able to mass produce steel and was one of the richest people. That was how the steelers got their name cause of the "steel". He was an immigrant he was really pro workers and knew they werent getting paid very well so he paid his workers a little better than others.
Social Darwinisiom is a belief popular in the late Victorian era in England America and elsewhere. The survival of the fittest just applied to buisness you are able to adapt and change. In 1902 Roosevelts administration brought suit against the giants of the railroad industry and the Beef Trust. The labor movement in the United States grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers. They fought for better wages, and reasonable hours.
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