Industrial revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a time when countries in Europe and North America changed from using hand tools and traditional manufacturing methods to using machines to make things, like cars and clothes. Machines allowed people to make things faster, more efficiently, and more cheaply than ever before. In fact, the Industrial Revolution meant that people could make more with less, which in turn led to a huge increase in the population, since people no longer had to work as hard to make the same amount of things. It also led to a rise in global trade, since countries were able to produce goods faster and more cheaply than ever before.