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= = = = = = = = =The Rise on Industry=

The industrial revolution reached the United States in the early 1800's, most americans still lived in farms. Out of population 30 million, only 1.3 million Americans worked in industry when the Civil War began in 1861. After the war ended industry expanded rapidly, and millions of Americans left their farm work, to work in mines or factories. Factories started replacing smaller workshops as machinery began to substitue for simpler hand tools, New Inventions came along. By the late 1800's the United States as the worlds leading industrial nation. Another important reason the United States was able to industrialize rapidly was its free enterprise system. In the 1800's many Americans embraced the idea of Laissez-Faire. In the late 1800's the profit motive attracted many capable and ambitious people into business, like Entrepreneurs.

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