Mary Ann Cotton

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…

The Industrial Revolution has been described as a mixed blessing. I agree with this statement for many reasons. When it says “mixed blessings” it's saying that it had both good and bad effects on people and ways of living. Some good effects/blessings it had were how it increased the production of goods, raise the standards of living, provided hope of improvement in peoples lives, included healthier diets, better housing, mass produced clothing, and expanded educational opportunities. Some…

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…

Bentley, a child worker stated that the card room where he worked in was so dusty that the dust would rest upon his lungs (Doc 1). There is a cotton factory that Dr. Clough and Mr. Barker visited, they reported that one couldn't remain in that factory for longer than ten minutes without coughing their lungs out (Doc 3). The air in the factory is not stable enough for these poor children's lungs…

of depression and struggle. Construction of cotton factories gave workers jobs, but the working conditions of the factories were not very favorable. According to John Brown “He heard the bones of her arms, legs and thighs successively snap asunder. She was carried off lifeless” (Document 2). The obviously dangerous environment the workers reside in has no effect on the factory owners, whereas they are more worried about making a profit from the cotton in the United States. Frank Forrest recites…

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.…

In large factories, there is a lot of heavy machinery and the use of many harsh equipment. As stated in “Much Too Young to Work so hard” it says that two young boys have died in a coal mine because of these dangerous conditions. Yet,around these dangerous devices are children! Though being paid to work, they work in very harsh conditions that are very dangerous for them. They are only getting paid very little, much less than deserved. These children are also deprived of their education and…

Colonial Life: Carpentry and Joining Colonial Carpentry was a key asset to the community. Carpenters from New Hampshire to Georgia were relied on to repair, build, and add on to buildings in the 18th century. Many Carpentry skills were passed down through generations. Carpentry not only required skill, but many things like being able to measure precisely. Many carpenters used woods such as oak, poplar, and yellow pine. Overall, carpentry helped colonies flourish in the 18th century.…

Generating new advancements in technology is how an economy prospers. And new advancements in technology happen when a number of innovative thinkers plant their ideas together and work to make them come alive. In America, technological progress came a bit after the turn of the 1800's. Manufacturing, transportation, and the rise of large cities, were all causes of America's economic growth. However, there were also consequences that fallowed as a result of America's prosperity. The concepts…