Compare and contrast the first and second industrial revolutions in the united states.

The first industrial revolutions in the US can be marked as the Market Revolution following the War of 1812.

The second industrial revolutions in the US is known as the Industrial revolutions.

Comparison: both sought to make improvements on communication, production, and transportation.

Both times, there were mass migrations of immigrants looking for jobs in factories.

Both made huge, beneficial progress in the US. Nativism towards immigrants

Contrast: Market Revolution had Mostly Irish and German immigrants, cotton gin, Seneca falls convention, canals/roads

Industrial revolution also contained the Gilded Age where there were many political corruptions (monopolies taking control of the US economy), laissez faire economics, Union Pacific railroad, new immigrants from the southern eastern area, telegraph