The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th century marks the transitions from an agricultural based society to an industrial nation. It boosted humankind's capacity to be productive, allowing the products we made and the things we used- whether for travel, items of clothing, and many more - to be made better and more efficiently. This revolution was not just impacting in it’s spread of new machines and technology, factories and air pollutions. It changed how people lived, and the political landscape of the 1800’s, among many other things.
With an steady improvement in medicine and health care, sanitation awareness, and a decrease in infant mortality, there was a massive increase in population. People were just living longer. …show more content…
They simply could not compete with the new technology, and it became harder and harder to find work in rural areas, forcing swarms of families to move to the inner city where one could always find a job in operating these factories. jobs which paid much less money for much longer working hours. They were paid living wages, meaning that one was only given the amount of money they would need to survive. Suddenly everyone in the family, not just the head of household but mothers and children had to …show more content…
Because of Great Britain’s and other countries in Europe that had been industrialized had such a large demand for these materials, it forced those countries that had a lack of these natural resources to either trade with other undeveloped countries or colonize said undeveloped countries to use the resources found in those countries. Great Britain’s need for cotton lead them to establishing a trading system with the Americas which had a perfect climate for growing cotton, importing the raw cotton that were picked by African slaves - and as the cotton industry and the demand for cotton products grew, so did the demand for slave labor. This cycle grew as other industrialized countries were able to colonize other areas in Asia and Africa for resources and many other reasons- simply stated, industrialism accidently led to the mass colonization of ‘undeveloped’ countries by
With an steady improvement in medicine and health care, sanitation awareness, and a decrease in infant mortality, there was a massive increase in population. People were just living longer. …show more content…
They simply could not compete with the new technology, and it became harder and harder to find work in rural areas, forcing swarms of families to move to the inner city where one could always find a job in operating these factories. jobs which paid much less money for much longer working hours. They were paid living wages, meaning that one was only given the amount of money they would need to survive. Suddenly everyone in the family, not just the head of household but mothers and children had to …show more content…
Because of Great Britain’s and other countries in Europe that had been industrialized had such a large demand for these materials, it forced those countries that had a lack of these natural resources to either trade with other undeveloped countries or colonize said undeveloped countries to use the resources found in those countries. Great Britain’s need for cotton lead them to establishing a trading system with the Americas which had a perfect climate for growing cotton, importing the raw cotton that were picked by African slaves - and as the cotton industry and the demand for cotton products grew, so did the demand for slave labor. This cycle grew as other industrialized countries were able to colonize other areas in Asia and Africa for resources and many other reasons- simply stated, industrialism accidently led to the mass colonization of ‘undeveloped’ countries by