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    Evolution is a natural process that occurs throughout the history of time; this process allows the Earth and it’s inhabitants to adapt to current environments to survive. Humans are physically and mentally subjected to evolution, although humans have ceased from major physical evolutionary changes since the dawn of Homo Sapiens, their minds are ever-changing to further progress the human race. Throughout the course of human history, every generation had a different sense of purpose, beliefs, and…

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    Factory Life Effects The past is filled with many advancements that are constantly being improved to this day. A part of the past that can fit that description would be the Industrial Revolution, it was filled with innovative inventors that helped make life easier for the people when it came to jobs or chores. However, there were consequences made due to how the inventions that were created would need to be improved because some inventions would malfunction and injure or kill the person that was…

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    “America’s Gift to my Generation” Child labor was a problem many kids faced until laws were changed. Overall Child labor had a big impact on many kids childhood because they were forced to work in factories, mines, and farms many years ago. Kids were forced to work dangerous jobs and could not get an education like kids today. As a result Child labor effected kids childhoods by forcing them to work in dangerous jobs and ending many kid’s lives. A job kids were forced to work was a factory job…

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    exclusive to only wealthy people. The Industrial Revolution meant factories could mass-produce items at much lower costs than the cottage industries, making goods more affordable to consumers. With the invention of the steam engine, a shift from rural water wheels to steam engines as an industrial power source facilitated the emergence of factories and industrial cities. Factories started the process of urbanization by causing people to leave rural sectors and move to the…

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    In the early years of the nineteenth century, Americans' endless commercial ambition remade the nation. Between the Revolution and the Civil War, an old, stubborn world died and a new more-commercial nation was born. Americans combined the technologies of the Industrial Revolution into a new commercial economy. Steam power, the technology that moved steamboats and railroads, fueled the rise of American industry by powering mills and sparking new national transportation networks. A "market…

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    produce the goods (clothes, shoe wear, and more). Since there were many factories in one area it produced a lot of pollution that affected the air around the area tremendously. Coal was a main resource factories needed because it fuels the steam engines and powers up many machines. Even though the machines help with faster processes the working conditions were poor for the workers. “They worked in dark, airless factory rooms, where they were in constant danger from the unguarded machinery”…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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 for example, the introduction of the steam engine that helped to mechanize work. New markets were rising up thanks to the new trade routes together with new institutions related to the trade process such as banks, insurance companies, transport, etc. These institutions were in need of more…

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    The American Industrial Revolution was a change in human life conditions that took place in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. There was change in technology, society, education, economy, culture, and medicine. Each were very essential in the growth of the economy. Public Health was something that had to be focused on during the Industrial Revolution. Without public health, how would people survive? Doctors needed technology for resources, education to be well-educated and…

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