Industrial Revolution Dbq Analysis

During the 1750s the world was evolving. This was the called the Industrial Revolution. Specifically the Industrial Revolution that began in Europe changed the country dramatically. Society changed where there were positive and negative changes. There were many positive effects of the Industrial Revolution on European society. People invented new inventions that helped the country in more than one way economically. With machines running factories and making the goods; the good were cheaper and faster to make. (Doc 3) Iron industry had been equally revolutionized by the invention of smelting by pit-coal, and by the application in 1788 of the steam-engine to blast furnaces. (Doc 2) With machines running mostly everything the amount of
iron manufactured nearly double itself. (Doc 2) Also, people moved to more urban areas which populated inland rather than population staying near the shore. (Doc 4) Not only did people spread to different areas, the population was increasing. While the population grew England was growing. It spread all around the world to: Boers land, Australia, Malta, Egypt, India, Canada, Jamaica, Cyprus, Cape Colony, Gibraltar, and many others. (Doc 8) Trains and canals helped people travel faster and easier, which meant better trading. The Industrial Revolution evolved war as well. Every war got deadlier, with new guns and methods of war. Automatic guns, poison gas, flamethrowers, and many more. Over all the Industrial Revolution had positive effects on European society. On the other hand the Industrial Revolution also had negative effects.
While machines were taking over hand made goods, the machines gave out toxic gases that affected the way you breathe. Also, machines took over people jobs, and people became poor. Poverty was seen in hidden away in alleys close to the stately homes of the wealthy. (Doc 5) Workers lived in dirty areas called slums and each slum was packed with many people. (Doc5) Sometimes there were six or more were living in a single small room, in a four room house. There was also no draining system, pot holes everywhere and strewn with animals. (Doc 5) Many people died in the slums because of bad ventilation and defective water supplies; people died from diseases in the slums. More people died in slums that the annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation are greater than the loss from death or wounds in any wars in which the country has been engaged in modern times. (Doc 6) The Industrial Revolution, was not a good revolution for the planet. From the time of its start, the factories and industry has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by two-folds. Also in our drive for consumerism, our planets natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate. Pollution by nuclear waste, pesticides and other chemicals are also the result of the Industrial
Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a dramatic change in the nature of production in which machines replaced tools, steam and other energy sources replaced human or animal power, and skilled workers were replaced with mostly unskilled workers. It was both a negative and positive effect on European society. The Industrial Revolution resulted in work that had been performed in the home by family members, such as spinning yarn, being performed with the help of large powerful machines in factories, such as the early textile mill. The Industrial Revolution permitted trends begun in the domestication revolution and agricultural revolution to continue, resulting in still greater inequality.