The positive effect of the industrial revolution was the new machinery invented including the steam engine, cotton gin, power loom, assembly line, telegraph, and multiple other inventions. This helped create things faster, and helped society do their jobs more efficiently.
The negative effects were the poor working conditions and living conditions. There was extremely low wages, and child labor. Pollution was also increased due to new machinery. Factories polluted the environment.
Gladiators were usually slaves, criminals, or prisoners of war—the Romans knew that the best way to orchestrate a fight to the death was to use men who have nothing to lose.
Answer: Yes. We were better over time but we became a poor country until people from all over the world started coming to seek a free country with a right of free religion. Then by the 1800's the US was becoming one of the richer country's across the world.
