1.The benefits of industrialization definitely outweighed the costs of industrialization. Industrialization cost a lot of money to help create many of the inventions involved in this era some of those including the railroads. Some of the costs of industrialization include; hard working conditions and environmental downgrades but mostly industrialization offered jobs to immigrants who couldn’t support their families without a job.The Industrializations also benefited the people by offering higher quality products and better transportation through the railways, new products such as steel were being created to improve railways as well. Without industrialization, America would have never started earlier on their attempts of having and continuing the economy that they earned through the rough spots during…show more content… This era let big companies believe that they were over the law and showed that money could serve as a bribe to buy a place within the government. This revolution also created a large gap within the social structure, the rich became richer and the poor, unfortunately, became poorer. This may have been a good time for America's working class and immigrants, but it was also a very bad time politics wise. Bribery, money, and returning favors was the key motivation of this era known as, the Era of Returning Favors. The growing class division within America during this time era created an issue in our democracy, because the labor workers were being treated unfairly. Individuals of the working class began working more hours for less pay, and they were being replaced by unskilled immigrants who would work for less. They faced unsafe condition every day. Also their bathroom and lunch breaks were limited. These conditions essentially separated them from the wealthy in a horrible
