Industrial Revolution

The Erie Canel was a way of transportation in the Industrial Revolution  Source

   

In the image we see how steel was produced. Source 

     

Here we see the people that worked the Black gold to make new products. Source

     
 


 















             
       
             The Erie canal was a canal from New York that ran about 363 miles from Albany and Buffalo connecting the Hudson River. The Erie canal benefited people in the Industrial Revolution by providing an early form of water transportation. Boats were a new way of transporting goods to the west and east. Through  out the 18th and 19th century the Erie canal was faster than carts pulled by draft animals and cut transport cost by 95 percent.
            United States became the the number one economy in the world, due to the fact that free enterprise, and entrepreneurs were a part of the contribution in the success of the U.S. Free Enterprise is an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control. In the lead of success, businessman called entrepreneurs invested their own money in new industries risking  their investment if a venture failed. The entrepreneurs began to develop products to suit people's needs. These two factors were important to the United States, due to the fact that it was profitable to the economy and people could invest in their own.

         The US had an abundance of natural resources that, held it to become a world wide industrial power. With the benefit of having oil, it allowed the US to transport goods through the movement of steamboats. New transportation ways were open to people and products would get faster to their destination Another natural resource was oil, it lead to the invention of the steam engine. Iron became available as well in 1887 were they found more than 100 miles long and up to 3 miles wide.
        Black gold through eastern Native American tribes had made fuel and medicine from crude oil.In the 1840's, Americans began to using kerosene to light lamps. Until 1859 Edwin L. Drake used oil in a steam engine. Gasoline became a by product an was a useful tool for the automobile and became the most important form of oil.
            In the United States steel was the new method to produce more than 90 percent of the nation's steel. the railroads were built with the access of steel. Not only did steel make railroads bu, it changed the face of the nations well, it made innovative creations that benefited the people. One of the most known structure was the Brooklyn Bridge that was supported by steel. Steel became very well known and people from all over the world wanted the same benefit.
             Buildings in changed in the Industrial Revolution by having the components of steel. An example was Baron Jenney designed the first sky skyscraper with a steel frame. With steel architects could built high buildings. with the introduction of electricity the buildings,became more modern as inventions came along.