- Politically we started more trade between countries.
- Politicians made new bills to protect businesses to give them more freedom. This also means that child labor was allowed. Countries such as America, India, and others did this.
- The political effect of the Industrial Revolution was the middle class, these people were the ones who had enough money but did not have a title.
- The IR needed more resources to make products. They could take resources from other less developed countries. They took military and indirect governmental control over mainly Africa and Asia. They exploited them and took resources. This spread and many other countries took resources from colonized countries.