Industrialization Of America Research Paper

The size of America being as vast as it is, no technological and industrial advancement would have been possible without a sufficiently spread out transit system. The railroad had just been invented. This, combined with the telegraph reduced the transport and communication distance between different parts of the country. Not only were minerals, raw materials, manufactured goods transported, but the railroad helped any upcoming technological innovation spread.

Moreover, most of America’s industrial sector came to be owned by a handful of aggressively astute (if not always scrupulous) businessmen, like Rockefeller, who contributed a lot towards the country growth into an industrial power. This time also saw a huge increase in technological inventions,