WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Before the Industrial Revolution, most Americans lived on farms. The whole family worked together to make what they needed for daily life. They bartered (traded) for items they could not make themselves. A farmer may trade corn with the blacksmith for horse-shoes or nails.

Detailed explanation-2: -Farming was slow, tedious work. Many people were involved to produce a large harvest. Farmers had to till soil, plant seeds, and harvest and separate crops all by hand before the many technical inventions and advancements of the Industrial Revolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -By the late 1700s many people could no longer earn their living in the countryside. Increasingly, people moved from farms and villages into bigger towns and cities to find work in factories.

Detailed explanation-4: -The UK’s industry sector was once dominated by the coal; heavily concentrated in south Wales, north and south Staffordshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, Northumberland, County Durham, Fife and Midlothian.

Detailed explanation-5: -The new jobs for the working class were in the cities. Thus, the Industrial Revolution began the transition of the United States from a rural to an urban society. Young people raised on farms saw greater opportunities in the cities and moved there, as did millions of immigrants from Europe.