The effect of sharecroppers and debt peonage was that they were unable to pay off debts and fell deeper into debt. The weight of the debt bound the sharecropper to the landowner as completely as they had been bound by slavery.
A.) The most essential resource to the first industrial revolution was coal. While Iron and Steel were essential resources in the second industrial revolution. B.) In the second industrial revolution, industrial developments changed American lives, there were many new inventions and industrial development allowed for faster communication, more productivity and wealth for industrialized countries.