Net Effects of the Industrial Revolution

Pros:

1. Products made cheaper and easier to manufacture.


2. Economic boom.


3. More jobs to go around (even if they were horrible).


4. Took America to the forefront of technological advances for the time period.

Cons:

1. People were paid little to do lots of work.


2. Entire families worked including children and only the father got paid.


3. Pollution increased exponentially.


4. People were forced to transition from mild farm life to hard factory life.