Second Industrial Revolution

Before the start of the Market Revolution, the United States had a small population of about 3.9 million people and its cities were left isolated from each other ("The Market Revolution in Antebellum America."). There were fairly distinct social classes, and only basic transportation, such as horses and boats. This all changed after the industrialization that happened during and after the Market Revolution took hold of the United States. In less than half a century, the population increased by…

The Industrial Revolution was not a very easy time period for workers in England. They did not get paid very much, and they were not able to go outside very much either. All they did was stand up and do whatever they were told to do by their overseer. Whether it was making shoes or making coats, these children were forced into labor, and suffered greatly from it. The poem “The Cry of the Children” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning tells the reader how hard children have it when working at a factory.…

‘Proto-industrialisation’ is usually considered to be a phase in the development of modern industrial economies (Hudson, 1990) and possibly created conditions for the establishment of fully industrial societies. It is thus generally the term given to the phase that preceded industrialisation. It is Franklin Mendels, who invented the term and first used it in a dissertation on the Flemish linen industry (Mendels 1969/1981). Mendels arguments were first widely adopted by his peers but then were…

industries in a country or region on a wide scale. Such as going from an agricultural country to an industrial country. This is what Russia did when they finally got industrialized. Russia was late to the game when it came to industrialization. For most of the 19th century, the 1800s, Russia was behind on growing…

The industrial age was revolutionary for the classes of American society. Many inventions reduced the time and money needed to create goods, as well as reducing the necessity of skill to have a job. Efficiency and accessibility caused the United States economy to soar. The shift of the United States economy from agrarian to industrial helped to create opportunities for the working class, middle class, and upper class. Despite controversy, the industrial age involved more economic opportunities…

Recently we were given two articles “The Gilded Age” by T. Jackson Lears and “The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900” by Richard White along with the video from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to read and watch. All of these resources allowed me to get a better understanding of the things going on during the Industrialization or “The Gilded Age”. For instance both articles collectively highlighted westward expansion, cultural and social shifts, the government's failure to…

importance to deal with Charles Dickens ( 1812-70 ) to represent the nineteenth century social life in all its drastic changes and development. In Oliver Twist, Dickens’s second novel, Dickens tries to reveal the existence of oppression in England. Oliver Twist reflects the England society during the Industrial Revolution in the late of the nineteenth century. Charles Dickens criticizes the social conditions inside the country which reveal the social injustice such as poverty,…

Did you know that even if we were to put the earth’s history into a clock human history would be less than a second? Still, we’ve made the most impact on the earth than any other species.Moreover, we are very inclined on learning about our past. Our history. Our revolution. The human revolution occurred two hundred and fifty thousand years ago. Humans began migrating to Eurasia, Australia,The Americas as well as to The Pacific.Likewise, the core languages also began to spread.Such as Bantu…

BC. Some of the oldest civilizations such as the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians often used boats around 3000 BC. Boats have evolved dramatically since when they were first built, and their purposes have changed to (Gascoigne 2001). Pre- Industrial Revolution there was a time lag with nearly everything imported. An important way of transportation was through the use of rivers, because and it was easy to drift down rivers on a flatboat with the goods, but going upstream took forever.…

was an agrarian based society; a society that depended only on farming and crops to survive. During the late 17th century, societies in Europe slowly strayed away from agrarian based society and lean towards urbanization. During the 1800's, industrial revolution took place in many megacities in Britain, including Manchester. Today, Manchester and Britain as a whole, is considered as a well developed society and megacities in developing countries such as Sao Paulo, Brazil currently facing similar…