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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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History
The Industrial Revolution, which started in England in the 1700s, had an significant impact on both the environment and society. While the impacts of industrialization on the environment were...
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History
The social and political changes of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have their roots in the devastating religious wars that wracked Europe in the seventeenth century. With the rise of...
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Industrial Revolution
The first factor that enabled Britain to experience the Industrial Revolution somewhat earlier than other European nations was its plentiful supplies of easily accessible coal and iron. This gave...
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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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History
All employee conditions during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century were very harsh. In fact, labor conditions were far more dangerous than even those in England. One reason was because...
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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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History
There are two main ways in which the industrialization of Europe led to imperial conquest. On the one hand, industrialization made it more possible for European countries to conquer other...
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Environment
The Earth, as everyone knows, is very unique within its existing solar system. Among the eight planets and dozens of moons orbiting those planets, only Earth has an environment conducive to...
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Industrial Revolution
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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History
First, it is important to note that many historians do not think that British society was divided into rich and poor classes in the second half of the 19th century. For example, one textbook that...
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Industrial Revolution
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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History
In general, the coming of the Industrial Revolution led to a situation in which women became more subjugated to men and were allowed to have less contact with the public sphere. The idea about...
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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
Industrial development in America started in the northeast and was confined in the area because most of the industries were powered by water. The industrial revolution started when Samuel Slater...
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Industrial Revolution
With human events, it is difficult to ever know for sure why a given event happens as it does. However, there are a number of reasons that are commonly given to try to explain why Britain, rather...
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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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History
The presence of a class system has been an indelible part of American history. There has always been a pyramid relationship between those in the position of power and everyone else. Yet, I think...
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Iceberg Sinks “Unsinkable” Ocean Liner Titanic
Part of where the 19th Century can be linked to the development of the Titanic is through the excesses and attributes of industrialization. As with the industrialization of the time period, the...
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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is still going on. It chief feature is machines putting workers out of jobs. An earlier effect of the Industrial Revolution was for woolen mills in England to be replacing...
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History
The Industrial Revolution in Europe at this time (often referred to as the second phase of the Industrial Revolution) played an important role in bringing about the New Imperialism. The Industrial...
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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
British society was impacted by the Industrial Revolution by a restructuring of that society. Previously society had been divided into the nobility and peasantry with a small middle class being...
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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
It is probably more nearly correct to state that the Northern states offered more fertile soil for industrialization to grow and prosper than the South. The comments above about slavery are...
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Industrial Revolution
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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Industrial Revolution
A good book on the industrial revolution: I like to emphasize the effect of the Industrial Revolution on society, on people's political and economic philosophies, on people's morals, on people's...
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Industrial Revolution
The impact of the Industrial Revolution went far beyond the utility of inventions. There was a huge shifting of population from farms to cities -- and often to tenements. People began to spend...
