The age of electricity made the lives of Americans both better and worse because electricity help light up the streets, but made it dirtier at the same time. It made work a lot easier, it made it more easier to see things which led to work being more easy and accurate. Because of the industrial businesses growing, electricity made pollution grow tremendously, since it was more easier to work so people worked more. Electricity also exploited to amount of immigrants and child labor at that time, and that made businesses use a lot more electricity, this led to what is known as the urban blight, or urban decay.
