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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…

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…

Radios, telephones, and telegraphs were all made in the Second Industrial Revolution, and aided to the development of quick, long-distance communication. Batteries and gas engines, also invented in the Second Industrial Revolution provide power to various machines and objects. Airplanes, paddlewheel steamboats, and ocean-going steamships made travel easier and led to the development of better transportation. Several other industrial…

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”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

America was destined for greatness, and westward expansion in the 1800’s helped fulfill that destiny by providing America with the need to expand. This is not destiny in the sense of the inevitable, but instead in the sense that it was beneficial to the white man settled in America. In fact, during this time Irish and German immigrants began travelling to America, which led to overpopulation in the northeast (“United States Population Density”). This overpopulation forced white settlers living…

The Industrial Revolution was a period of great inventions, new machinery, and the rise of multiple factories. The Industrial Revolution had made hard labor easier for the people. Although, since more factories had opened, people would hire children. This is called Child Labor. During the time of the Industrial Revolution, the problem of Child Labor had occurred. Child Labor is wrong because kids did not have safe working conditions and this unsafe practice was regulated by the Factories Act…