The Antebellum period occurred in the United States just before the Civil War. The United States was becoming a successful nation. The country lead in cotton producing and had developed several industries‚ which in the future‚ surpasses that of European nations. Prior to the Civil War‚ the North and South had many differences that helped shape the antebellum period. The north was very successful because the economy was based on manufacturing. The north could not have farms because the soil was
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“Humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would‚ over the next two centuries‚ forever change the world” (Jeremy Rifkin). Even though industry would help humanity advance into new frontiers‚ people during the 1500s placed most of their energy into farming and agriculture because it was the main source of profits at the time. Depending on where a farmer lived‚ they would grow different products or they owned livestock. For the most part‚ the North raised livestock
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Transportation was one of the major developments during Industrialism by connecting cities through railroads. Existing railroads were improved upon as well as expanding westward. Railroads were essential for transporting both goods and people. They brought raw materials to city factories‚ which would then be converted to consumer goods and redistributed by the trains. The expansion of tracks encouraged settlers to migrate‚ and build more cities out west. By the 1900’s over two thousand miles of railroad
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The lives of textile workers in the Lowell Mills‚ not unlike most of the lives of mostly everyone else in America at the time‚ had many challenges. Textile workers were usually single women from age 10 to mid 40’s. The women would be sent to work at the mills to earn a little extra money for their family. Workers had to work very hard for the amount of money they were paid (anywhere from $2 to $6 per week). A textile worker would often begin work before day break and end long after sunset. This eventually
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Around the ending of the fifteenth century‚ Europeans who first settled in America brought longhorn cattle along with them. The population of cattle multiplied. By the early nineteenth century‚ more cattle ranches were common in places such as Mexico. Mexico was included to become Texas. Longhorn cattle were kept on open range and looked after by cowboys also referred to as vaqueros. In 1836‚ Texas became independent because Mexicans left with their cattle behind. Around that time beef was not popular
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Child Labor in Great Britain stated in the late 18th century. The cotton mills owners would go out into the country and find children that were either very poor or orphans and have them come work for them in the factories. In instances children would begin working in these industry at the age of five or six and work long hours of the day basically more than half the day they would end of working in that job. In 1802 social reforms would start to begin to help these children be kids and have some
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In the 1800s women’s rights changed tremendously. In the beginning of the 1800s women had no rights and were strictly housewives meant to raise children‚ and be strictly religious. Throughout the 1800s many changes took place within the roles and rights of women. Women during this time period were given chances for freedom. Women took advantage of these opportunities and changed their role in America. These changes applied on every level from women’s role in society‚ place of work and within the
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Just imagine your life working all day everyday.TO BEGIN WITH factories started to find a new source of labor to run their machines whitch was little CHILDEREN.A driven machine started to replace hand labor for making certain items. Then child labor started to be a major problem. CHILDEREN had terrible working conditions and low life expecting. FACTORIES system split up families for a lot of hours. Poverty children and families were poor barely ate food and moms and dads had to work also with the
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When many Americans think of farm animals they think of pigs rolling in the mud outside‚ cattle grazing on green grass that goes on for miles‚ and chickens roaming about in front of a picturesque red barn. Over the past century‚ the way food animals are raised and fed has changed drastically. The rise of the factory farm industry altered the stereotypical idea of what farms look like and the treatment and health of the animals inside. Factory farming is an industrialized system of producing meat
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What did slave life “look like” when it expanded in the south after the introduction of the cotton gin? Why? There are many perspectives of slave live‚ from the young children to matured adults‚ Saltwater Africans had one thing in common which was heartache. The shipment of slaves coming from the upper to lower parts of the south was a domino reaction by the invention of a disarmingly simple machine that processed as much cotton in a single day as fifty slaves cleaned by hand‚ created by Eli Whitney
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