Etete
Jesse Weinstein
Period 4
AP Euro
Mr. Ervin
Industrial Revolution Essay/Outline
1/17/12
Industrial Revolution Essay
The 19th century was full of new innovations and ideas, but not all of these had a positive effect on the people. The industrial revolution caused many people to leave their simple rural homes, and move to the city where they could find a job working at a factory. These factories had terrible working conditions, and low paying wages. The cities where these factories were located were overcrowded, and had many negative effects on the people and the environment. The cities were so condensed together that only the rich could afford to commute by horseback, while the rest of the population was forced to walk. This type of city was known as a “walking city.” Throughout the 19th century Europeans were forced to face many difficulties in their condensed cities. These issues included over crowdedness, horrible working conditions, and poor sanitation. All of these issues were partially fixed, but still to this day are not completely resolved. The over crowdedness in the cities was a direct cause of the industrial revolution, and people starting to build things in factories by machines, instead of everything being handmade. The people could not compete with the factories and were forced to move to the cities in order to find jobs, which there were very limited of. This over crowdedness caused multiple people to live in a single small apartment and caused disease to spread much quicker. This problem of over population was partially solved with the new invention of public transportation and the electric car. These new inventions allowed people to move out of the crowded cities into smaller less crowded suburbs of the city. They were able to do this because now instead of having to walk to work they can just take an electric car or other form of public transportation to the factory where they were working. This helped the over crowdedness because
Period 4
AP Euro
Mr. Ervin
Industrial Revolution Essay/Outline
1/17/12
Industrial Revolution Essay
The 19th century was full of new innovations and ideas, but not all of these had a positive effect on the people. The industrial revolution caused many people to leave their simple rural homes, and move to the city where they could find a job working at a factory. These factories had terrible working conditions, and low paying wages. The cities where these factories were located were overcrowded, and had many negative effects on the people and the environment. The cities were so condensed together that only the rich could afford to commute by horseback, while the rest of the population was forced to walk. This type of city was known as a “walking city.” Throughout the 19th century Europeans were forced to face many difficulties in their condensed cities. These issues included over crowdedness, horrible working conditions, and poor sanitation. All of these issues were partially fixed, but still to this day are not completely resolved. The over crowdedness in the cities was a direct cause of the industrial revolution, and people starting to build things in factories by machines, instead of everything being handmade. The people could not compete with the factories and were forced to move to the cities in order to find jobs, which there were very limited of. This over crowdedness caused multiple people to live in a single small apartment and caused disease to spread much quicker. This problem of over population was partially solved with the new invention of public transportation and the electric car. These new inventions allowed people to move out of the crowded cities into smaller less crowded suburbs of the city. They were able to do this because now instead of having to walk to work they can just take an electric car or other form of public transportation to the factory where they were working. This helped the over crowdedness because