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The textile industry is a popular subject that comes to mind when thinking about the industrial revolution.The sales of the spinning jenny and other textile advancements were massively popular and therefore helped improve the economy. The textile industry became so big, it had a revolutionary effect on Britain's economy. The ever improving textile inventions helped to continue Britain’s economic growth. The spinning jenny and the water frame were eventually used to create more profitable…

During the 19th century, Americans were facing the new industrial age that came with the rapid growth of business manufacturing. The rapid economic growth of the United States railroads, helped create new technology in the workplace. Therefore, companies were adapting to new technology and replacing skilled workers with new machinery. Skilled workers, were not being paid enough or losing their jobs to unskilled immigrants, women, and children; who were willing to take even lower wages to work.…

Wilson uses the ghetto of Chicago as his “laboratory” to describe the decline in the African American race. With it being less barriers to a higher education, higher career opportunities, and allied groups in the American society. When you grow up in the ghetto, sometimes committing a crime is a part of an economic opportunity because much income isn’t coming into a person’s household. Males took it upon themselves to drop out of school to sell drugs. With the major decline being unexpected in…

A major change in America’s society during this time period was the second Industrial Revolution, in which Leuchtenburg discusses in his tenth chapter, “The Second Industrial Revolution.” The first and second revolution differ immensely due to the fact the first focused primarily on the establishment of steam powered machines while the second replaced steam with electricity as the power source. This revolution altered the daily lives of every American by changing the way of transportation,…

Following the end of the Civil War led to the Second Industrial revolution which brought many new innovative ideas and inventions attracting people from all over the world. Individuals who owned Businesses were thriving off the success that the second industrial revolution had brought. Few people grew to become unbelievably wealthy, but two massive people in that time period were Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller the two wealthiest people during the Industrial Revolution. Attracting…

Jackson Fickert-Rowland Period 1 11/17/16 Working Conditions at the Turn of the 19th Century: The conditions of workplaces throughout the Industrial revolution were awful as time went on. Many businesses initially needed employees to work for them, and many applied, willing to work for low pay in exchange for unskilled labor. Because of the vast amount of workers, the companies set wages as low as they could so they could afford operating their business. People worked around…

No free time like a regular child would get today, just going to the mines ready to have permanent scar on your body. Let’s say you are a 9 year old boy in the 1880’s. If you habited in the right side of the country, you were considered a hard-working factory worker.The majority of these kids were unhealthy, monotonous, and not incapable to continue on. In 1900’s, over 1.7 million children under the age of 16 works outside their homes. For many years, children had been suffering until the…

What is the Industrial Revolution? What kind of changes did it make? When did it happen? Many wonder how it happened all I could say is that it was one of the most topics everyone talked about. These Revolution was transformations combined between social and economics that happen in some places around Europe. The Industrial Revolution made an enormous change in the 17th century. It took place in England Between the 17th and 18th century. The strong and brave Richard J Boyd once claimed “The…

Before the 1800’s, most Americans were farmers and most goods were produced by hand, but when the Industrial Revolution came into play everything slowly changed. Machines replaced almost everything. There were a lot of new power sources. For example; sewing machines, made our clothes quicker that it would if we would of hand sewn it like always. While most Americans continued to farm for a living, the economy began to shift toward manufacturing. There are a couple positive and negative effects…

The Industrial Revolution wasn’t actually wasn’t as wonderful as some might think. The Industrial Revolution in the late 1700’s to the late 1800’s was where industrialization spread and many new inventions were created. While some might argue that industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because the standard of living improved, financial opportunities were created, and a plethora of inventions were created, but it actually was a negative thing for society.…