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The major impacts of the invention of the sewing machine were to 1) create the clothing industry and 2) to help allow people to have more clothing. Before the invention of the sewing machine, all...
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As with most nations, industrialization had a profound impact on the economy of the Philippines and on its society as a whole. A poor, agricultural nation, the process of industrialization enabled...
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The major economic difference between the North and the South during this time was that the North was a mixed economy with free labor while the South was an agrarian economy based on slave labor....
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It is sometimes said that James Watt invented the steam engine. This is not quite true. A number of people had produced steam engines of sorts. Watt took the steam engine design of a man named...
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There were perhaps more similarities than differences between the two; and the American Industrial Revolution was in many respects an accidental child of the British revolution. One important...
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The Industrial Revolution describes a time where machines replaced hand tools. Before the Industrial Revolution began, people made many products by hand and worked in small work environments. As a...
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The Industrial Revolution changed society in that it created a lot of pollution, especially air pollution from the burning of coal. Although medieval London had filthy streets, at least the air...
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The center of American Industrialization was located on the Eastern Coast. When Slater contracts in Rhode Island to build the first factory, it begins the process of industrialization as something...
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A few of the earliest steel mills in the United States operated in Alabama after the Civil War. There was a surplus of available labor due to the convict lease system and an agricultural...
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The major positive effect of the Industrial Revolution was economic. The Industrial Revolution allowed things to be produced more cheaply and in greater numbers. This was originally true of...
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In order to come up with a headline about the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution, you must first think about what those impacts were. In general, the Industrial Revolution led to two...
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The first consequence of the Industrial Revolution, as is apparent from its name, was industrialization. This means that many processes which in the past had been done by hand began to be performed...
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Of course, the Industrial Revolution is so named because of the tremendous social and technological changes that it made, not because it was truly a radical movement such as the French Revolution....
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There can be several different relationships that exist between the Industrial Revolution, commodities, and consumers. One relationship is that the Industrial Revolution helped to deliver...
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The Industrial Revolution has impacted humanity in ways that are both good and bad. Let us look at some of the most important of these impacts. The major positive impact of the Industrial...
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I think that when Dickens writes "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," the latter portion of the statement applied to workers during the Industrial Revolution. Workers during the...
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Humans have had significant effects on the environment for thousands of years. For example, the deforestation of Easter Island or of many areas of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire occurred long...
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During the Industrial Revolution, the rising importance of machinery caused workers to see their jobs more as dull tasks and less as rewarding careers. Before mechanization, more workers were...
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Before the sewing machine, most clothing was produced at home. It was stitched by hand. This was a long, slow process. Some clothing was professionally made by tailors who could make clothing...
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The American Industrial Revolution took off after the Civil War ended in 1865. The factory model of doing business became popular because it allowed businesses to carry out all production in a...
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One essential natural resource for industrialization is coal since coal is needed for energy. Energy is needed to run manufacturing plants and machines. In particular, many engines during the...
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One of the major benefits of the Industrial Revolution was the speed at which goods could be produced. Labor-saving machines made it possible to produce products at a much faster rate; therefore,...
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Labor unions are formed as a means of workers banding together for protection against the abuses of management. Beginning in the late 1770s, there had been temporary labor union in the United...
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The Industrial Revolution in the United States, as elsewhere, led to massive economic expansion, the development of new technologies, and the enormous growth in productive capacity. But it had...
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The Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed almost all aspects of life in Europe, Britain, and North America. Industrialization was responsible for...
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There are a number of reasons commonly given for why the Industrial Revolution started in England rather than in some other European country. Let us look at a few of the most important of these...
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Many different social and political problems ensued from the British Industrial Revolution. They include: Agricultural Efficiency: The combination of the new methods of the Agricultural Revolution...
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The Industrial Revolution was absolutely essential for the "transformation" of mankind. Whether it was absolutely essential for the survival of mankind or for progression of human evolution,...
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So this is for middle school? I am going to go on the assumption that it is since that is what your profile says you are. Here are a few questions that you might use. When did the Industrial...
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In the 18th century in America, if a factory was opened in a town, the town probably had some type of geographic advantage, like access to water or rail or natural resources. The town also...
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The Industrial Revolution is considered to have begun in England, and spread rapidly to Western Europe and North America. The mid-18th Century was a period of enormous technological innovation...
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When Charles Dickens writes, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," he might as well be writing about Industrialization. The idea here is that industrialization brought about much...
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The Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the mid- to late-18th Century with the invention by James Watt of his steam engine, itself an evolutionary follow-on to an early 18th Century...
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There were many different factors that made the development of industry in Britain possible. Some were political, others cultural and social, and still others environmental. Politically, while...
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The development of the American railroad, combined with other advances in technology of the late 1800s, generated huge changes in American life and business. Small business owners, whose markets...
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First of all, we should note that cotton was not exactly the first big industry of the Industrial Revolution. It is more accurate to say that textiles (which included cotton but also included...
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o Thomas Edison invented many things, including but not limited to, the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture. All these inventions impacted America's growth and history...
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Of course, one of the major effects of the Industrial Revolution in the United States (as elsewhere) was urbanization, or the rapid growth of cities. But industrial growth also connected cities...
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I think that the factory system did much to enhance the hierarchy that ended up becoming an intrinsic part of the American class structure. The factory system created a fairly clear demarcation of...
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One factor you should keep in mind when speaking about the Industrial Revolution and the Industrial Age is that industrialization brought with it the advent of class consciousness. In a very real...