The industrial revolution began in Britain and worked it’s way to America. Most of the people who lived in Britain resided in small rural towns where their daily living revolved around farming. The people of these towns lives were hard as incomes were low and malnourishment and diseases were high. An abundance of the good that these people lived on such as clothing and food were produced in the communities, most of the production was done in the homes of these people with small hand tools. Times were very hard for these people and when the industrial revolution began it made life easier on the ones who inhabited these communities. Although those are some reasons to why the industrial revolution began, they are not the main reasons why. The industrial revolution began in Britain due to the fact that it deposited great amounts of coal and iron ore, two compounds need for industrialization. Although many of the communities in Britain were very poor, Britain itself was a very “politically sustainable society” and was the world's leading colonial power, this would allow for Britain to be source of raw materials as well as the manufacturer of goods. When Britain started to industrialize it did not take long for other countries, especially America, to follow …show more content…
Before the steel plow farmers had to use logs, bones, and any other hard item they could find to break up the dirt to plant. John Deere took an old steel saw blade and polished it then attached that to pieced of wood that would be pushed and pulled by hand or attached to a horse and pulled to till the ground. Deere used and old steel saw blade due to the fact that steel was not something that was common in America at that time. Once John Deere invented the steel plow he took the plow to a neighbor of his and got him to use it and it turned out the plow could till any type of ground. Thanks to John Deere’s simple invention that was created to make the life of a farmer easier we now have tractors and combines that till the ground by the push of a button and the moving of a few