American History

American History

Industrial Revolution as one of the biggest events of historic significance is integrally connected with the transition of capitalism from the manufacturing stage to the factory and cannot be attached as a concept to any manifestations of mechanization of production or to industrialization in its broadest sense. The industrial revolution is inadequate or technological progress in the manufacturing stage or a later date of a delayed type of development in the industrial stage of capitalism. He started in the last third of the 18th century in England, and the next decade was a time of processing the factory system in the other major capitalist countries of Europe and America. Following this, there is the beginning of industrialization, was significantly different from the industrial revolution in all basic parameters - technical and technological, economic and social.

The industrial revolution in the Northeast United States has been associated with the manufacturing period (early colonization of the North American continent belonged to the 17th-18th centuries), and the development of capitalism in the U.S. went in the overall Euro-American process. Hence the rapid introduction of machinery in the late 18th century and technology characteristic of the industrial revolution. If we take into account that the end of 18th - first half of 19th century Is the industrial revolution or the beginning of the manufacturing in the countries of capitalism, it becomes clear that in the colonized land agents and forms of industrial development is determined by the stage at which - the manufacturing or factory - it happened. In addition, in any Western European country was the economy, similar to plantation economy of the South and the United States colonized the American West. Only the industrial North-East to create a condition similar to Western, but with the important difference that capitalism developed there by the U.S., farm path, i.e. objectively the most favorable. Clearly, both forms of industrial development in the three regions of the U.S. were different.

Determining the type of industrial development of the South USA is considerable theoretical complexity, when mechanization began in conditions of serfdom, and the share of hired labor was low. The main center of U.S. industrial production was concentrated in the free states of the North-East, while in the Northeast United States at that time has been largely completed the industrial revolution, which had a strong influence on the economy of the South. 

Thus, in the American South, especially in his old states, slave mode peculiar combination with the organizational and technical elements that are characteristic of advanced capitalist industry. Southern industrial sector developed at the same time and in parallel with the north, passing through a stage of crafts and textiles, that is, having made the usual path of the industrial revolution. Technical revolution has spread in the first half of 19th century. Both the northern and much of the southern states, but the South was practically no major social features of the industrial revolution and the formation of the working class.

Main industrial sector of the South was cleaning cotton came from the invention in 1793 of simple machine - ginning "gin", which is ...