Started the Industrial Revolution

What Started the Industrial Revolution and How It Changed Society Vanessa Civil Union County College Abstract This paper explores three published articles that show how the Industrial Revolution started and shaped society. The Industrial Revolution began in Britain during the 18th century and later moved to other countries such as Germany, France, and the United States. This is the time period when agricultural societies became more industrialized. Industrial Revolution drastically changed society, before the industrial revolution people were mostly in small rural communities and everything was handmade, life was difficult before the industrial revolution.

People had to produce their own food, clothing, furniture, and tools.

When the industrial revolution took place machines and factories replaced merchants. Also, transportation, communication and banking became more advanced due to the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution changed the difference between the rich and the poor drastically. The Industrial Revolution made the gap larger because the workers of the factory were barely making enough to support their families and the owner of the factories were getting all the profits and living in big mansions. Birth place of industrialization Industrial Revolution evolved in Britain, mass production factories were taking place. A man named Samuel Mills decide to steal the technology by memorizing the plan for the mills then he hoped on a ship and Brought the Industrial Revolution to United States, soon after it spread to Belgium, France, and Germany.

Factories was not just making clothing and textile, they were making furniture and everyday items. Also, by the early 19th century Americans were leaving their farm and moving to the urban area’s where they would work in factories. United States went from being agrarian society to being Industrialized urban society. Before the industrial revolution Britain was dependent on India for cotton now they can take raw cotton and make the thread themselves and England became the center for that. Innovation What people was doing before Industrial revolution) During the industrial revolution the economy was increasing rapidly. A lot of things got invited during the industrial revolution. The transportation industry had a significant transformation during the Industrial Revolution because the steam engine, steamboat, and team ships were invented before this horse-drawn wagon was the main transportation.

Communication became easier during the industrial revolution also, during this time the electrical telegraph was invented that allowed people to send messages from a long distance. Quality of life during Industrialization Quality of life improved and everything was easier to make however the Industrial revolution was beneficial to all because it brought variety of factory-produced goods and raised the standard of living for many people especially the middle and upper classes. The Industrial Revolution also had a dark side, for it brought poverty as well as progress. This was Mr. Hyde’s malevolent face. Technical change threw many people out of work. Twelve-hour Allen, R. C. (2017). The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction Work days were normal in the new factories, and the remuneration was meagre. Workers’ housing in the expanding cities was often squalid and lacked effective sanitation and safe drinking water. The cities were polluted. The provision of writer’s education was limited. Some romantics rejected the new industrial order, and many writers explored its contradictions in the social problem novel’.

Working condition The rich were getting richer and the poor was working in unsanitary conditions for little pay. American who in the upper don’t seem to care. In Mattson, K. (2006). Remember The Jungle! it states that one hundred years ago, a book was published that changed history. It was called The Jungle. And its message was simple: America’s meat industry was corrupt, exploiting its workers and churning out food that shouldn’t be eaten. Upton Sinclair described men falling into vats and then being turned into food. He documented rats scurrying onto piles of diseased meat. Rats, bread and meat would go into the hoppers together, winding up on dining tables. This was muckraking at its best, ripping aside the veil for Americans to see what might otherwise be ignored.

Americans were more concerned about the meat than the immigrant’s workers. Teddy Roosevelt was outraged by seeing meat were being processed Sinclair was summoned to the White House by Teddy Roosevelt, and on June 30, 1906, the Meat Inspection Act passed, the most pronounced extension of federal power ever enacted,

Works cited

Buyst, E. (2018). The Causes of Growth during Belgium’s Industrial Revolution. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 49(1), 71??“92. https://weblib.ucc.edu:2217/10.1162/jinhpass:[_]a_01232 History.com Editors. (2009). Industrial Revolution. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/industrial-revolution Mattson, K. (2006). Remember The Jungle! Nation, 282(17), 30. Retrieved from https://weblib.ucc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=20458581&site=ehost-live&scope=site Allen, R. C. (2017). The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction [Abstract]. Very Short Introductions. doi:10.1093/actrade/9780198706786.001.0001

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