In the 1800’s I think the factory systems were bad people got very sick and hurt. They should have changed the working conditions because the factory systems were very bad. In document A the people said They had to work from 5 in the morning to nine or ten at night, and on Saturday's they had to work until 11-12 at night. They were dirty and people got diseases. In document C they said They broke elbows, scraped arms and got beat up. They could not tell the truth about there treatment or they would get in trouble. In conclusion, the factory systems were bad and it was not good for the workers.…
The working conditions of factories and mines were in appalling conditions. There were a lot of deadly accidents when coal was brought to the surface with buckets. The ropes used to haul the coal were unstable and workers would plunge to their deaths. There were also children workers in the mines who worked in the dark because their families were too poor to provide candles for light.…
Over the course of two centuries, the ways that wars and battles are fought have changed drastically, and yet the end goal has always remained the same, to win and not be defeated no matter at what cost. As the progression of the Industrial Revolution escalated, it paved the way for what could be produced to help military forces win in battle. Industrialization during the 18th & 19th centuries caused the battles of Waterloo and the Somme to be a great example of how industrialization helped evolve war tactics and weaponry to effectively defeat the enemy.…
During the Industrial Revolution, the health of the English textile factory workers was put at risk due to harsh working conditions, resulting in harmful accidents and deadly pollution. The factory workers faced long working hours, usually from “five in the morning to nine or ten at night” (Doc C). In addition to this long hours, workers only received one small breakfast break, only consisting of water-porridge, oatcakes, and onions. This lead to an unstable health in the workers and caused problems later in life. Documents A provide examples on how the working conditions during the Industrial Revolution were dangerous and unsafe. Dr. Ward recalls “the children's hands and arms having being caught in the machinery”, which in some cases led…
The newly industrialized Manchester forced employers to overwork and expose their workers to harmful and disgusting environments. In document 7, the words of the socialist and women’s rights advocate, Flora Tristan, show that working conditions in factories were disgusting and terrible. The document states that people must endure immensely long hours in rooms with low ceilings, laboring away, all day long. She also tells us about the particles that workers would often inhale while working for hours in the factories. Tristan says that “the welfare of the workers never entered the builder’s head”. In the excerpt from William Alexander Abram’s journal, document 10, Abram tells how one can see differences of conditions within factories in Manchester. The document tells how successful reforms that were passed and the improvements that were made by them. However, this document is not as reliable as the others because it was written well after most of the other documents had already been written, and by the time this document was written, several reforms had hopefully already taken place. It also only mentions one reform; the Hours of Labor in Factories Act of 1844, which itself was not a heavy reform, only reducing the amount of working hours to ten per day. Document 5, Journeys to England and Ireland, the author believes what is being created by the new industrial society is pure…
Several factors led to the rise of U.S. industrialization in the late 1800’s. New technologies like steam engines, railroads, and telegraphs made communication and transportation easier. The ability to source and transport materials across the country with ease turned many local businesses into national companies. Workplace innovations, such as the assembly-line method of production, allowed these companies to produce goods on a mass scale.…
Throughout different places in the world the people that worked as laborers had to go through many harsh conditions that affected their health conditions. The working conditions were not fair at all because if the owners of the…
America’s ideas and beliefs have been changing over centuries of mistakes and experiments. This is the way that we formed our own government, made the right choices in subsequent decisions, and how we exhibit what kind of country we are to the rest of the world. Our nation evolved more quickly following several inventions that may seem simple or obvious in retrospect. One of America’s biggest eras of change was in the early 1800s. Jobs were moving from farms to factories. Transportation was turning certain cities into hubs of industry. The dependence on slaves was increasing on the Southern plantations. During the early 1800s, new technology and industrial methods changed the way people in America made a living.…
By the 1900's the United States had emerged as the leading industrial power in the world, with a manufacturing output that exceeded Great Britain, France, and Germany. There were many factors that helped to accomplish the rise of America. Those factors include natural resources, immigration, new inventions etc.…
To begin, during the Industrial Revolution, factories lead to health problems to the men workers, in addition to pollution. In document seven there is a photograph where there is an enormous amount of black smoke in the sky causing pollution. All the black smoke in the air was inhaled by workers and families which would cause health problems putting the people at risk of death.…
Life at the factories was rough during the industrial era. Children picked up and put to work at factories to feed their family. They worked for 12-16 hours a day in a smoke infested rooms. They could lose limbs and get diseases just standing there. This document will prove factory life was unhealthy and dangerous for the workers at that time.…
Railroads have been around for almost two hundred years. During the Industrial Revolution, Railroads were one of the important factors. Railroads brought out only benefits to America, they brought political, economic and social change in only 50 years since they were brought to America. Trains and railroads were also an important factor during the civil war. Trains helped by carrying military supplies from one military camp to another. Over the next 50 years, America would come to build spectacular bridges and other things that would allow trains to run on. They would also come to see great depots, rail magnates, and the majesty of rail locomotives crossing the country. Railroads would also change the way you transport and the traveling time.…
In the nineteenth century a series of innovations in transportation and economic expansion transformed our economy from an agricultural standpoint to one now mainly focused on new methods of production and having an endless commercial ambition. Previously most american families would produce what they needed at home for subsistence and sold anything left over to local stores but, now our country has slowly shifted to an industrial economy where a bountiful of economic opportunities for the “common man” has emerged due to western expansion and the emergence of Northern trade through new ways of transportation. Farmers began to grow for profit and not self sufficiency and many factories and cities began to flourish.…
The period of the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) was characterized by a time of change and development, to which the cotton industry and scientific machinery advancement acting as the engines driving radical demographic and social change. The developments in the factory system subsequently led to the demographic shift from rural to urban society. The demographic shift depressed the living standards of workers of the of the manufacturing systems and left the aggravated conditions of labor and poverty remain relatively unnoticed. The parliamentary investigations of the textile factory conditions of the Sadler Committee report and Andrew Ure’s contrasting stance in defense to the factory provided insight to the labor movement.…
The development of railroads was one of the most important part of the Industrial Revolution. With their formation, construction and operation, they brought major parts too the new world , Most especially economic and the political change. Over the 50 years that it has been, America would come to see magnificent bridges and other structures on which trains would run, awesome depots, ruthless rail magnates and the greatness of rail locomotives crossing the country. It started in the late 1800’s. The golden spike linked the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah. Developing railroads was a big factor in americans life. They used trains for important stuff including transporting goods, trades an even transporting…