Industrialization Social Impact
The Industrial Revolution was a gargantuan change in the history of the world which affected our agriculture, industry and transport and communications. According to history.com, “The Industrial Revolution was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban.” This monumental change evoked in England during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Facts presented in cove.k12.or.us, state that, “The British town of Manchester numbered 17,000 people in the 1750s. Within a few years, it exploded into a center of the textile industry. Its population soared to 40,000 by 1780 and 70,000 by 1801.” This humongous increase in population was one of several social impacts compelled by The Industrial …show more content…
According to study.com, “Communication and transportation innovations were made, because of the new technology. It also changed the way people worked and their jobs. The standard of living was increased.”
The old culture before the introduction of the Industrial Revolution, where people had to travel to work by walking, toil extremely hard in bad conditions, live in appalling standards and survive just to feed their families, was diminished to an extent where people’s lives became tolerable. The steam engine was created. This ensured that people did not need to walk to work.
New machines were invented to function in factories. These machines, gave people the advantage to work with less effort, as it was the machine doing all the work, while the workers had to merely guide the machines. Communications was improved and became more reliable as messages were passed quicker, through a telegraph or telephone. Even people of lower class, earned enough money to scrape by and feed their starving families. Culture was improved astonishingly by the Industrial Revolution. People were not suffering as much as they used to and the new culture that evolved was welcomed eagerly by the …show more content…
The ships would then sail to the Americas, and other countries close by to deliver the slaves. The European ships would then return with raw materials to be used in factories.
Why were slaves in high demand? This was a direct result of the Industrial Revolution. England had copiousness amounts of slaves. These slaves were in fact citizens who had lost their jobs, or convicts who had resorted to stealing in hopes of gaining money. These slaves were seen to be “England’s prized possessions.” She refused to confer these slaves to America and her neighbouring countries. As slaves in America were slowly dying off, the demand became higher. England became the emissary of slave trade between America and Africa. The transatlantic slave trade prospered greatly in these
Facts presented in cove.k12.or.us, state that, “The British town of Manchester numbered 17,000 people in the 1750s. Within a few years, it exploded into a center of the textile industry. Its population soared to 40,000 by 1780 and 70,000 by 1801.” This humongous increase in population was one of several social impacts compelled by The Industrial …show more content…
According to study.com, “Communication and transportation innovations were made, because of the new technology. It also changed the way people worked and their jobs. The standard of living was increased.”
The old culture before the introduction of the Industrial Revolution, where people had to travel to work by walking, toil extremely hard in bad conditions, live in appalling standards and survive just to feed their families, was diminished to an extent where people’s lives became tolerable. The steam engine was created. This ensured that people did not need to walk to work.
New machines were invented to function in factories. These machines, gave people the advantage to work with less effort, as it was the machine doing all the work, while the workers had to merely guide the machines. Communications was improved and became more reliable as messages were passed quicker, through a telegraph or telephone. Even people of lower class, earned enough money to scrape by and feed their starving families. Culture was improved astonishingly by the Industrial Revolution. People were not suffering as much as they used to and the new culture that evolved was welcomed eagerly by the …show more content…
The ships would then sail to the Americas, and other countries close by to deliver the slaves. The European ships would then return with raw materials to be used in factories.
Why were slaves in high demand? This was a direct result of the Industrial Revolution. England had copiousness amounts of slaves. These slaves were in fact citizens who had lost their jobs, or convicts who had resorted to stealing in hopes of gaining money. These slaves were seen to be “England’s prized possessions.” She refused to confer these slaves to America and her neighbouring countries. As slaves in America were slowly dying off, the demand became higher. England became the emissary of slave trade between America and Africa. The transatlantic slave trade prospered greatly in these