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    The Industrial Revolution was a time of innovation and productivity which truly allowed the British to transition to this new era. The Industrial Revolution in Britain was not caused from an individual power but the need for a better energy source than wood. The British found this in coal which contains three times the amount of energy‚ and the British coasts were blessed with this resource. Mining was what allowed the Industrial Revolution to kick start. As the coal source on the surface depleted

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    One of the causes of the industrial revolution is child labor. This made up a lot of the revolution because the child labor was really bad. The children cleaned the machinery and could sometimes lose their limbs. Another cause is the new inventions in the industrial factories. With the new inventions came new jobs and opportunities. However‚ with new jobs in bigger cities caused many people to move. With everyone moving to the city for better jobs‚ the apartments were very packed. Usually the

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    European Industrial Revolution Economical Aspect Causes: http://socyberty.com/history/causes-of-the-early-industrial-revolution Population Growth: The English civil war and the end to Feudalism contributed to the increasing population. People became immune to diseases and this immunity spread to children‚ enabling them to combat getting infected with illness. Young adolescents married early which lead to an increased birth rate‚ so the population makeup composed of a large young population

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    35% of all internet downloads are pornographic. Every second‚ $3‚075.64 is being spent on pornography and 28‚258 internet users are viewing porn (Stats on Internet Pornography‚ 2013). These statistics are not simply numbers‚ they indicate real people‚ and most of them are children and teenagers. The average age of the children’s first exposure to Internet pornography is 11 and the largest group of viewers of Internet pornography is those between ages 12 and 17 (Family Safe Media‚ 2005)! For parents

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    The Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain during the mid-18th to the early 19th century. One of the most poisonous and dangerous jobs in the Industrial Revolution was matchmaking where workers would dip the ends of match sticks into a hazardous chemical called phosphorus. The prime candidates to complete the job of matchmaking were young girls aged 4-16 years old who were known as ‘match girls’. These children worked‚ making matches‚ from 6:00 in the morning to almost 10:00 at night and were

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    principal tenets of the socialist thought. Before the Industrial Revolution Britain was an agrarian society with approximately 90% of the population living in the rural areas. Most people worked in the field as farmers and farmhands on land owned by a small minority (Aristocrats). During this time‚ the manufacturing of goods such as textile was a slow process because everything was done by hand. However‚ a series of innovations changed the way people lived and worked for the next 200 years. Inventors

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    United States were ripe for an industrial revolution in the early 1800’s." "Reaping What You Sow": The American Industrial Revolution "The economy of the United States before the War of 1812 was largely shaped by geography..." says Arnold S. Rice. Under Henry Clay’s American system‚ canals‚ railroads‚ and public education paramounted past internal improvements. (Doc B). The inventions oriented towards textile and locomotion sparked more invention and more production. Society‚ itself‚ conformed

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    How did the Industrial Revolution Change the American Economy Before the Industrial Revolution‚ the American economy was built on cotton plantations‚ hand-woven textiles‚ farming‚ fishing‚ and trade. Products were made by hand on farms and in homes. The Industrial Revolution changed how goods were produced which had a major impact on the American Economy both positively and negatively. The invention of machines‚ water power‚ and steam engines‚ for example‚ led to materials being produced more

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    The industrial revolution was a time when countries such as Britain and France began to modernize and develop more goods for the general public. This innovation of manufacture led to a large demand of goods by the general public. This demand could only be accomplished by enforcing a large workforce to do the labor of creating the manufactured products. Although this large workforce resulted in modernization of the country as well as an economic boost‚ the industrial revolution also caused

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    The Industrial Revolution is generally considered as a transition process from handcrafted manufacturing to factory production. Although scientists do not have a single view on the start of this movement‚ the “invention” theory seems to be the most powerful in explaining the causes of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. In comparison with the “cultural” theory‚ for example‚ the “invention” standpoint expounds the roots of industrialization more reasonably and persuasively. It mostly appeals

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