In general, the Industrial Revolution, which originated in Great Britain, opened up lots of new opportunities for employment for people, which created a solid middle class.
It crippled them economically forcing them into cheap labor
Most of the time it disenfranchised them
The black codes were passed which were essentially a set of restrictive laws passed during johnsons presidency which in a lot of states forced black people to sign labor contracts otherwise they would have been fined or jailed or sold back into basically slavery
