During the nineteenth century, many advances in technology took place. Most of these came as a result of people beginning to understand electricity. (Even though electricity had been studied and recorded for many centuries, it was only as of the nineteenth century that it had been experimented wit...

A new way of life was taking shape for the American people during the new industrial revolution. Transformations of all ways of life were in motion at a rapid pace. With the completion of the transcontinental railroad came dramatic changes to the cattle and mining industries. Cities were being redes...