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The Industrial Revolutions changed how people lived and how everyday goods were made. These revolutions also made innovations that are important to our modern world, such as the telephone, the battery, and the airplane. Although many beneficial technological advancements were made during the Industrial Revolutions, they had detrimental effects on the environment and people’s health; child labor also grew popular and work conditions and agreements were often very poor. The Industrial…

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Berenice Chavez-Rojas ANT 4123.001 09 March 2016 Manos and Metates of the Mimbrenos Mimbres is the name of a river in the mountainous southwestern New Mexico. The Mibres River valley has prehistoric archaeological sites with centuries of occupation. The elevation is as diverse as the vegetation. The arid climate and long growing season were attractive to maize, which dominated an agricultural movement. The increase in available food led to population growth and the need to process more grain at…

Tailors during the middle ages made clothes for a small amount of the population. Their work was mostly bound by limited and traditional resources. They were hired to make all types of clothing from silk gowns to underwear. A variety of materials added to the repertoires of some tailors for creating diverse types of clothing. Most tailors worked in highly specialized shops where templates and clothing materials allowed them to create more copies of specific garments. Tailors procured and…

Adult strength was not required to run the power driven machines and children could be paid less than adults. There were a few jobs taking place inside certain factories, some of which were extremely dangerous. For example, in a match factory, a child would dip matches into an element called phosphorous, which when inhaled frequently, could result in death (Koolbreeze, 1). Another form of child labor is known as coal mining. Coalmining was a popular…

What Foner meant as the “Second Industrial revolution” was, “The country enjoyed abundant natural resources, a growing g supply of labor, an expanding marked for manufactured goods, and the availability of capital for investment…in addition, the federal government actively promoted industrial and agricultural development”.(1) The main components for the second industrial revolution started with the government granting land to railroad companies to encourage construction in the west and to also…

Nineteenth century England was expanding its barriers all over the globe; the acquisition of the colonies meant the growth of the British Empire. The fact that England was expanding caused the rise of an overseas commerce that provoked the increase of the English’s economy. This expansion together with the Industrial Revolution prompted different changes in the country. The Industrial Revolution was a process of evolution from traditional methods of manufacturing to more sophisticated ones, as…

Importance of American Technology WWI During the twenties, America experienced extreme development and urbanization. Many new inventions and innovations were made. Such as, steel, oil, and the assembly line along with many other inventions and innovations. Technology played a big role in World War I and continued to develop afterwards. It could be argued that steel and oil made America the way it is today. Steel was a very important aspect to the growth of America.Steel was needed to…

People were killed by gas and explosions. Factories had a negative impact on the cities. The worst period of unhealthy urbanisation was between 1815­ and 1850. However, the problems worsened as the cities became overpopulated. Another public health problem that people faced during the Industrial…

Chicago was a densely populated city in the late 18th century, but now Chicago is a powerhouse of the American economy. The city started out as a small, but a densely populated city that favoured more industrial jobs that required factories to be built in the heart of the city. But as a large number of immigrants began to move into the city, the demand for more jobs became enormous. In the textbook, “Making America,” the only way Chicago could handle the demand for jobs was to expand. This…