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    in 1840s. After industrial revolution in Europe resources were being used on large scale for larger production during 18th and 19th century. It was boom in textile industry so most of the people were leaving their traditional job and moving towards cotton industry like many small farmers turned into weavers in late 18th century. It was credible time that all process of cloth manufacturing took place in one single…

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    information that I’m going to need. It states that the people in the factories couldn't even stay in there for even 10 minutes without gasping for air! Also, in document A it gives another piece of information on how bad it was in the factories. It says, “Cotton factories are a highly unfavorable, both to the…

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    Hammer V. Dagenhart court case It was not uncommon for children to work long hours in factories, mills and other industrial settings. Many families depended on the income earned by their children. Public concern the effects of these conditions on children began to rise. Advocates for child labor laws pointed out that children who worked such long hours (sometimes as much as sixty or seventy hours a week) were deprived of education, fresh air, and time to play. They also worried about the…

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    Besides your typical farmers and travelers, Horatio Gate Jones described wagon trains half a mile long on ridge road waiting to deliver supplies to the mills. This likely created even more business for your local blacksmiths and wheelwrights. The farmers on the hill were not the only people impacted. Land owners closer to the river and mills witnessed great economic development. The Industrial Revolution swept across Roxborough. The Industrial Revolution created two general classes…

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    revolution, extensive mineral resources, and government’s loose role, caused Great Britain to be the leader of the revolution. New inventions like the steam engine caused a great influx in certain markets, for example, the cotton industry went from producing 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton in 1760 to 366 million pounds in 1840. The effects of the industrial revolution on Great Britain were the expansion of cities due to the huge increase in factories, the mistreatment of the new social class of…

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    Child Labor In The 1800s

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    Some of the children even worked in coals mines which were very dangerous because they were working near explosives and sometimes the roof would collapse so children were often hurt or even killed. Some children also worked in the mills where their hair would get caught in machines or their hands would be smashed and some children who fell asleep while working would fall into the machines and get killed. On top of working in bad conditions with dangerous machines the working children…

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    The industrial revolution left a drastic mark on society. The revolution changed the ways of people in the 18th century drastically; the classes began to change, some individuals became very wealthy but some individuals lived in horrible conditions. Children were sent to work in factories where they were mistreated and made to work as much as adults. Women began working in textile industries and started to spend less time at home with their families. The problems of the industrial revolution…

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    played a role. The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18th century and eventually ended up in other parts of the world. The start of the American Industrial Revolution is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first industrial mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that…

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    shows the struggle Richard Abernathy went through as a child. In the story it states, “Richard was struggling to repair a machine and had accidentally broken it beyond repair. The cotton mill owner was so frustrated with Richard that he tightened a heavy weight around Richard's neck and forced him to walk around the mill for an hour…. This happened so often that Richard had developed neck problems by the age of ten” (paragraph 3 ). This shows that when he did something wrong it would be…

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    The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in human history, changing every aspect of human life through technology. It was the change from a handicraft economy to one directed by machinery and factories. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, people owned whatever they manufactured by hand, and produced the bulk of their own food, clothing, and other items. However, there was a sudden surge of energy which replaced manual labor with mechanical work, which raised the standard of living for…

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