Category: Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, which was the innovation in the manufacturing industry to increase production, profit, and labor demands in 1750 to 1900. For the rich, this meant more luxuries and better lives, but for the average person, who was generally middle-class to poor, the Industrial Revolution did not do as good to them. The documents…

This essay will argue about the conditions of the people affected by the first Industrial Revolution. More specifically, it will focus on the living conditions of the common people, concerning health, education, consumptions and domestic life. Taking under scrutiny Great Britain, at the end of the 1840s, an analysis of the political context will incur,…

As society advances, new problems are created by that advancement, the Industrial Revolution was no exception to this case. New problems arose as the United States began to industrialise. Problems such as the fact that the United States was split into two parts with a mass of land in the middle which was terrible to…

In March 1861, President Abraham Lincoln was faced with one of the most difficult decisions in the history of the United States, which would decide the fate of the Union. When Americans elected Abraham Lincoln as the nations first Republican president in November of 1860, there was already tension between the North and the South…

1. Introduction The industrial revolution came with major changes to human lives from the first industrial revolution that started in England from the year 1750 to 1760 which changed the labor system from animal labor to machinery then human kind kept on evolving as they got to witness the second industrial revolution which is mostly…

The United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave, one of the biggest powers in the world and the most influential. We live in a society, where success can be achieved if your willing to put in the hard work. We aspire to be successful, to be well off on…

Introduction The Industrial Revolution started in the continent of Europe in Britain in the second half of the 18th century. It is traditionally viewed as the deepest mutation ever known to have affected men since Neolithic times. The Industrial Revolution shaped the face of new industrial and economically successful societies by modifying their social and…

Technological innovation has defined human evolution from the beginning of the Stone Age to the current informative age. Its contributions to the society’s development were noticed but it was only recently at the dawn of the industrial revolution that its impact was fully analyzed by historians and economists alike. This essay will first explore what…

Abstract The Industrial Revolution saw the rise of a great many inventions. They aimed at giving better living spaces to people. Some of these inventions directly dealt with this situation whereas some worked through various means. The invention of the Dynamite is one such occurrence that changed the course of history. It sped up the…

The era of the Industrial Revolution is deeply rooted in Britain after its major success being the mechanization in the production of cotton cloth. From this initial seed, the technologies would later spread across the North Atlantic and finally reach the United States of America. Although the U.S had an abundance of land for agricultural…