How Was America Affected By The Industrial Revolution?

Throughout this time period, America was going through reconstruction to make our nation better which benefited our economy in the long run.
The Industrial Revolution was taking place in the late 1700s which began in Britain. It was a time period where manufacturing mainly occurred in peoples home’s, using basic machines or hand tools. Systems of transportation, communication, and banking improved due to the roles played by iron and textile industries. Some of the inventions created during this revolution and their inventors included, Elisha Otis’s elevator safety break, John Deere’s steel plow, the Harry Bessemer Method for processing steel, and Louis Pasteur’s vaccines for diseases. This was mainly beneficial for those of the lower and working classes. Inventions that greatly affected the Industrial Revolution and beyond were the sewing machine and the telegraph. The sewing was invented by Elias Howe and Issac Singer in 1846, who became extremely wealthy. It was favorable for those who made their own clothes or paid other people to so and it also offered more jobs and big factories. The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse which allowed people to send messages more quickly through a wire rather than mail.
Alexander Hamilton was chosen by George Washington, America’s first president, to direct the federal economic policy as the treasury secretary, This was the decision on putting tariffs (taxes) on imported goods. Hamilton tried restoring the economy by making American manufacturers self-supporting. Originally, the government rested upon large-scale agricultural exports to pay for the imports of British manufactured goods. Hamilton’s final thought on the system was that it kept the American economy very limited, especially compared to Great Britain. In the end, Hamilton’s ideas led to more economic problems like Whiskey’s Rebellion. which was a protest on the excise tax placed on