American Industry

A detailed Summary of American Industry

The Industrial Giant Known as America

Many factors led to America having a tremendous rise in industry. The five points

that made the most impact were technology, mass distribution and production, education,

railroads, management ideas and structure, and immigrant labor. These five points not

only improved the existing industry, but they revolutionized how the American industry

would be run for the next generation. As with any change in an existing system, there

were a few problems, the main problems where with workers so management just replaced

them with machines. Many people weren't ready to make the adjustment from small town

farming to big city living but the benefits far out-weighed any unusual situations, so the

people and the nation when along with it.

In the 1850's and on, most Americans were wondering about the benefit of a

society dominated by cities, factories, and masses of wage earners. Along with cities and

factories, pollution, and unhygienic situations was rising as well. Industrializing of the

nation was wanted by many people but on the other hand, many people did not want to

see the nation industrialize. The United States, at this point, mostly an agricultural society,

finally came to an end. In 1910, the United States firming planted itself as the world's

workers. Other conflict of interest in business also surfaced as everyone wanted the get

e people lived on farms or in small towns, and had lots of open space to

and on-going customer service. Duke who started a regional sales offices, made it so that

also. With all of this happening, there was a growing need to ship goods, which in turn

nation's tunnels and railroads , mined iron ore, coal and other minerals. They stoked the

what the public wanted in turn keeping sales high. Duke also started national advertising

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