Second Industrial Revolution

When the Industrial Revolution began it set the foundation for all the modern technology we have today. The Big business that was made during this Revolution gave us the materials to industrialize the U.S and mold it to the great country it already is. Without the big industrial companies in that period of time, I believe that we wouldn’t be the same United States that we are today. To began, back in the early reconstructing era right after the civil war people the U.S began to industrialize by…

The topic I chose for my research project is migrant workers. The importance of my topic migrant workers was working to survive and to maintain the family. The first subtopic for my topic is jobs.They found better jobs so they could have a un-harsh living condition."And finally, thousands of other immigrant workers traveled less clear paths throughout dozens of states in search of work."It was hard for them to live their life.It changed the way they wanted to live as a migrant worker." "Migrant…

Amber alerts,"Have you Seen Me Know" ads, and News Reports. Often times I see abducted children in the news or hear about human trafficking, but I find myself feeling helpless on how to help solve the problem. My opportunity to make a difference was through a SEGway World Reform Competition.In this competition, twenty groups presented a theoretical program to help solve a world issue important to them.The winners received a $100 KIVA Card to donate to an entrepreneur to make that difference. In…

The mid-nineteenth century was the immense time of British radicalism. Illustrative of the time was William Ewart Gladstone, who served as leader four times somewhere around 1868 and 1894. Before 1848, Gladstone had been a traditionalist with a solid reformist streak; his two noteworthy interests were unhindered commerce and the restoration of London's whores. “By the 1860s he had gone separate ways with the traditionalists and turn into a main liberal, pushing for expansion of the establishment…

Stereotypical peasant life in the eighteenth century revolves around the poor, subsistent farmers who are economically tied to the land struggling to survive day-to-day. Akin to the focus on labor and food, the fairy tales, which were mainly oral traditions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, usually ended with the protagonist being rewarded with food or an aristocratic lifestyle void of manual labor. Thus, the fantasies of the peasants, to eat and relax, were realized through fairy…

Over the years this source of revenue has shifted considerably, leaving behind large fissures in the social fabric. Reflecting upon the area, Lexington and Thomasville, the two incorporated areas of the county, were once the locations of large industrial mills. Now the shells of dilapidated buildings remain as symbols of what once was a thriving industry. Surrounding the mills are areas over run with low income housing in what were once mill homes. These areas represent the primary housing…

"We want no manufactures; we desire no trading, no mechanical or manufacturing classes. As long as we have our rice, our sugar, our tobacco and our cotton, we can command wealth to purchase all we want." This is a way an Alabama politician summed up the southern point of view. But without the North the south wouldn't be able to live in this fragile system nor the North without the south. The North and the south had many differences but in those differences also came many comparisons. The North…

Labor unions have been a part of the American workforce since colonial times (Cussen, 2012). In their early forms, these unions were craft guilds and mutual aid societies composed of skilled craftsmen, with the aim to restrict entry into a craft and enforce workplace standards (Domhoff, n.d.). As the workplace became more industrialized and skilled labor replaced with mechanized, compartmentalized, lesser skilled workers, skilled craftsmen felt their livelihood threatened (Domhoff, n.d.).…

I started considering Industrial revolution as a topic when I heard about the terrible work conditions and child labor. My teacher had been teaching about the industrial revolution, so I had already knew a lot about the industrial revolution. I was glad to hear about how all of the problems of the industrial revolution led to labor unions. A labor union: an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. But I also felt…

The definition of the first industrial revolution can be broken into two primary parts. Essentially these parts are, one, the discovery and use of new power sources to, two, optimize newly invented or advanced technology (Introduction). It originated in England beginning in the 1700’s, the first phase did not end until approximately the 1870’s (Marshall). England was the leader in developing commerce and therefore needed more goods to satisfy the dramatic population growth (Hackett). They…