l and furniture. Extra money came from selling of surplus goods and it was spent on things like coffee and tea. Land-starved descendents of land-starved peasants were not going to coop themselves up in smelly factories when they might till their own acres in Gods fresh air and sunlight.(Bailey) Farmers did not want to move into a big city because they liked it were they were even though there was a lot of jobs that the revolution brought. Even though farmers were reluctant to move, they did. They did this because they could make more money. The farmers were to far away from the factories to go back in forth every day so they had to move into the cities were the factories were located in the cities. This moving of people from the country to the city caused a rapid urban growth. Cities were becoming larger and population was rising. Cities were now becoming the place to live.(Vialls)The industrial revolution also caused the national economy to rise. The jobs were being filled and the factories were producing a lot of products. Because more products were being made, there was more to trade with other countries, which made more money for the economy. The factories were trading with other countries at a massive rate. North America began to make so many products and trading them that in the 19th century the Americans took over as the industrial leaders. Thus letting them make more money than any other country. It wasnt the country that was making all the money though; the people were also making more money since they moved off the farms. America in a whole was becoming richer in a since. There was a downfall to the Industrial Revolution in the economy. The factories were letting more people make more money than they did before. Thus widening the gap between being poor and being wealthy. Land value was also increasing due to the location of the factories. The North-East land became more valuable because that is were most of the factories were ...
