During the 1800s, the United States economy grew dramatically due to new inventions, remarkably rapid growth, and new forms of communication and transportation. These benefits brought about changes to the workforce as well. These newly discovered inventions, created more manufacturing purposes and brought about more jobs in different industries. This was a time known as the Industrial Revolution. Throughout the industrial revolution, inventors like Thomas Alva Edison greatly increased the quality of life for all …showed first 75 words of 910 total…

…showed last 75 words of 910 total…change in the government of the colonies, but in society itself. "Such a change marked a real and radical revolution, a change of society, not just of government." (Wood, 169) People no longer saw themselves as subjects dependant, was servile." (Wood, 179) The American Revolution changed the views of the colonists, a change which embodied the spirit of the United States that would be felt for years to come. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blEliasHowe.htm ⨪