By the mid 1800s‚ machines began to take over the industrial economy. More and more machines began to be used to produce clothing‚ shoes‚ watches‚ guns‚ and farming supplies. The working conditions in the factories in the mid 1800s on the other hand‚ was very harsh and dangerous. It was very easy to get caught in a machine‚ and get badly injured. The average workday for employees was 11.4 hours a day. Not only was the machines moving at a rapid pace‚ but children that had to work‚ would end up getting
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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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The beginning of the consumerism can be traced back to the 1920’s after the end of World War I. This mainly occurred in the urban areas where a consumer conscious had developed‚ hand in hand‚ with the Industrial Era of mass production (Jacobs‚ 2011). The expansion of consumer conscious not only changed Americans but reformed the whole political scene. Researcher found that consumerism was often used to define a social class and to form an identity. Uniquely‚ the buying of goods was empowering to
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The failure of the U.S. dollar and potential loss of sovereignty of the United States of America will be first and foremost the largest economic and social issue that American voters will face in the elections of 2016. Today our national debt stands a little over 12 trillion dollars according to treasurydirect.gov‚ and the gross domestic product of the United States is estimated to be approximately 14.4 trillion as of 2008 (cia.gov‚ 2009). Projections by the current administration estimate that
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In the early 1800’s‚ the ideal woman was a sophisticated being. Intelligence‚ virtue and wittiness were all key character traits that every male would have fallen for in a female. However‚ this idea of the perfect woman has taken a huge leap backwards in modern society. Men have drastically changed their views on ‘what is hot and what is not’ in a female. Should men still be pursuing the ideal woman represented in the 1800’s? More importantly‚ does the contemporary mentality of the ideal woman yield
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the United States aims to be a country where everyone receives the same treatment‚ it is certainly not so. Unfair treatment can be seen all throughout America in every generation and especially in the early 1800s. During the early 1800s and in the present day there is an ongoing
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How Far Had Public Health Improved 1800 – 1900? Imagine if you were working in a factory at least for 16hours in a dirty atmosphere‚ then when you eventually get to go home‚ you have to go through the smell of overflowing cesspits‚ and finally you enter the dingy little room with a bed in the corner filled with sleeping family‚ how would you feel? Well‚ in the 1800s- 1900s poor people lived exactly like that‚ because they were lacking the effectiveness of public health‚ which was suppose
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Breast cancer is a disease that devastates so many women in our society each year. The catastrophic toll that it had on women in the 1800’s was much more traumatizing than it is today. Robert Shadle and James S. Olson give us a vivid picture of what breast cancer in the 1800’s was like in their essay entitled‚ “Dying of Breast Cancer in the 1800s.” The authors of this incredible essay describe the life of “Nabby” Adams‚ the daughter of John and Abigail Adams. The essay gives us a detailed account
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