The industrial revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social economic and cultural conditions of the times.Railroad was one of the major changes. It allowed people and supplies to be transported across the US. Steel allowed skyscrapers and other things to be made. In 1902 Roosevelt's administration brought suit against the giants of the railroad.
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