The second industrial revolution
The Industrial Revolution began to spread to Western Europe and North America and between the years 1870 and 1914, the Industrial Revolution unfolded in the United States even more powerfully than it did in Great Britain. The United States became the world’s leader in manufacturing and this became known as the Second Industrial Revolution. The Americans had many advantages that made it possible to become the world’s leading in manufacturing. They had vast forest resources in their country and the Americans took advantage of these technologies that were from Britain and made it their own and even better. Many changes in technology occurred but most by which simply just replaced the old ones, making them more efficient and even better. These technologies that gradually became part of our everyday lives.
The beginning of the second industrial revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution began after the Civil War and Reconstruction when there was the increase of demand for goods. The First Industrial Revolution was the growth of industries, while the Second Industrial Revolution was expanding that with great ideas from people and making the Second better than the First. It all started when Samuel Slater went to the United States and brought with him the new manufacturing technologies from Britain. He was born in Derbyshire, England; he wanted to make a fortune by help build a textile industry. The British law prohibited textile workers to share any information regarding their technology and forbade them to leave the country, but in the late 1789, he arrived to New York. He started the first U. S. cotton mill in Beverly, Massachusetts. He became the father of the American factory system and the Father of the American Industrial Revolution.