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    food increase the populations. The increase of population resulted in an increase in factory jobs. The switch from the domestic system to factory system really sparked the revolution. “In 1793, when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, thereby allowing massive amount of cotton to be quickly processed in the Americas and exported to Europe, the textile industry was taken out of the homes and into the mills entirely. Which made the factory system profit, but it came with a social cost.”…

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    A man named (Petrarch) From Europe was the man who brought the name "dark age" in 500-1500 AD (Movie Talk- The Dark Ages).The dark age was not just dark but light too. There was many dark periods like the black death. There was also many growth periods too, like education improved. There was many growth periods in the dark age but the dark age had more bad periods than good. The (dark age) was not just all just bad it had some good periods in it too. For example, Document C discusses how Europe…

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    the competition in their occupation. Men and women were employed as power loom operators. Power loom machines, used in the cloth making process, were adopted slowly because of imperfections in the early designs, but were widely used by the 1830’s. Cotton was the most important textile of the Industrial Revolution, but there were also advances in the machinery for silk, wool and flax production. Many parts of society changed during the 1800’s as machine led industries became widespread.…

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    Hammer v. Dagenhart is an important case in U.S Constitutional law because it carried significant implications about the power of Congress to regulate commerce through the Commerce law. This influential case was centered on the constitutionality of the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act. The controversial act was brought into play on the first of September 1916. This statute prohibited the transportation in interstate commerce of goods produced at factories that violated certain restrictions on child…

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    The Industrial Revolution has always been considered an extremely important part of the world history and one thing is for certain the Industrial Revolution brought many incredible things. However there have been ongoing debates about whether the effects of it were more positive or negative. Despite all the good that came of the Industrial Revolution an equal amount of evil spread as well. Both sides of the Industrial Revolution could be argued, some say the good outweighs the bad and some say…

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    In the United Kingdom, during the 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution was in full force, drastically changing labor in factories and working class living conditions. The changes brought by the Industrial Revolution created jobs for the working class and increased population, but also worsened working conditions and living conditions, and caused more children to be employed in unsafe working environments. Through the technological advancements and changes brought by the…

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    The Industrial Revolution happened in the late 1700s and early 1900s. In order for the industrial to happen they needed labor/people to work, natural resources and capital. The reasons the industrial began in Great Britain was because of the agricultural revolution, which led to more laborers. Also, because Great Britain had a lot of coal and iron.The Industrial Revolution was an important occasion which started in the 1760. It was a transition to new manufacturing processes. Many factories…

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    one century. Even if it wasn’t the unique country with population growth, it was the place in the best position to meet this crowd’s demands. Secondly, it has all of the raw materials required for this kind of revolution, like coal, iron, wool, and cotton, which came mostly from the colonies (Britain was the greatest colonial power in the 1850s). On the other hand, there was the political cause: because of the war with France, the British island was cut off from the rest of Europe. Accordingly,…

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    During the Industrial Revolution the world as we know it today started to take form. New inventions were becoming developed at a very rapid speed all over the world. At the end of the nineteenth century the telegraph, camera, and electricity was invented (Fiero, 2015). This period brought forth many goods and job opportunities for the economy. These inventions were not the easiest to produce until the Industrial Revolution came about and switched the production from people to machines. A group…

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    Advancements of Second Industrial Revolution The benefits and opportunities of the Industrialized American society outweighed the risks and challenges of life. During 1840-1907, when industrialization of America was transpiring, there a considerable influx mass immigration into America. Which posed problems and advantages to American society and further contributed to the industrialization. The Industrial society lead to a number of new advances in technology and working strategies that…

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