Factory Acts

these factory workers go through in the factories. The workers are treated no better than slaves and most people don’t know that some women and children are forced to work in these hellish factories. These people are throwing their lives to waste. The Industrial Revolution forced many people and families to be bound to factories and live lives of pain and suffering. Most people don’t understand the downsides of this revolution, because they haven’t seen the inside of these mass factories. First…

In the early 18 century, population growth in Europe provoked by the improvement of health measurements ,the disappearance of the bubonic plague and better ways of transporting the crops, led to many rural works to look for alternative sources of income. Peasants could barely sustain themselves and their families with what they made from their farms, or sometimes didn 't even had land at all. This situation lead to the creation of the “putting out system”, in which, the merchants loaned raw…

Industrial Revolution “The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.”(Stephen Gardiner) First of all, right of the Industrial revolution, there is a pre-industrial era and it was the age before machines help people to perform in task. The social classes of British society are divided into peasants and lords. Agricultural economy basically plays an important role in the country. Due to the absent of machines and tools during that time,…

manufacturing. The more factories that developed in favourable locations, the larger cities would grow.” (Armstrong, Monty, David Daniel, Abby Kanarek, and Alexandra Freer. Cracking the AP World History Exam. N.P.: N.P., n.d. Print.) The reason for the increase of urbanization during the Industrial Revolution was because of agricultural revolution which resulted in a surplus of food, with the surplus of food increase the populations. The increase of population resulted in an increase in factory…

Before the industrial revolution, a mass production of manufactured products made possible by machinery, people made most of their own goods in their home by hand. The act of making things you needed was very taxing on people, and was a very long process. However, this all changed when the textile industry became popular. The industry let the public get the same end result for much cheaper. Customers were also utilizing the textile industry because the mass production of goods meant they would…

After the Agricultural Revolution, the steam engine had been invented, manufacturing became easier and people started to work in factories and use machines to produce goods instead of it being handmade. However, the Industrial Revolution presented a major problem of pollution, to solve this environmental problem the Public Health Act of 1875 and the Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act of 1853 had been passed. As the mechanized machines produced products, they were using coal,…

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…

implementation of new legislations that gave workers rights and privileges in their workplaces. The Coal Mines Act of 1842, for example, was passed to ensure that in coal mines “no female was to be employed underground [and] no boy under 10 years old was to be employed underground” . In 1833, The Factory Act was passed, requiring that “no child under nine should be allowed to work in textile factories; that children between nine and thirteen work no more than eight hours a day and receive a…

cities. These rapid growing cities lacked hygienic infrastructures to handle and endure with the expanding population. Many people had to quickly improvise and were subject to often jam packed housing and usually sleep across the street from the factories that released smoke and other pollutants. Urban residents, “lived in tiny unventilated apartments, often with whole families—and perhaps a few boarders—occupying the same room…the most miserable and degraded lived in unfinished cellars, their…

city would “ continue to dump sewage into nearby bodies of water” (Faragher and Buhle 542), which ended up in people's indoor plumbing. The way the middle class solved their problems is by creating the Sherman Antitrust Act that allowed free competition in business and an illegal act to monopolize in dealing. The middle class also moved from the city to the suburbs where they were far from the noise and had privacy. Although it was a far drive for the people who…