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    The Industrial Revolution was the major technological‚ socioeconomic and cultural change in late 18th and early 19th century that began in Britain and spread throughout the world. During that time‚ an economy based on manual labour was replaced by one dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery. It began with the mechanisation of the textile industries and the development of iron-making techniques‚ and trade expansion was enabled by the introduction of canals‚ improved roads and then

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    Plott‚ 1  Jessica Plott  November 18‚ 2014  3rd Block DC History  Mr. Higgins  The Impact of the Industrial Revolution in the North  The Industrial Revolution made an impact upon the world in the early nineteenth century.  The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from  about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.  This transition included going from hand  production methods to machines‚ new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes‚  improved efficiency of water power

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    factories‚ corporate enterprise‚ and industrial worker and‚ the surge in immigration supplied their workers. In the latter half of the 19th century‚ continued industrialization and urbanization sparked an increasing demand for a larger and cheaper labor force. The country’s transformation from a rural agricultural society into an urban industrial nation attracted immigrants worldwide. As free land and free labor disappeared and as capitalists dominated the economy‚ dramatic social‚ political‚ and economic

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    During the Industrial revolution it reflects towards a to the fast development that took place in 18th and 19th centuries. Industrial revolution led to several far changes in the way people lived and worked back then in history. The new technology development led to very large factories with large work force. Which of course required creating new jobs with much labor‚ that was more less skilled. Also you didn’t work for yourself or at your own timing you worked for a boss and you had to work as

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    ECONOMY‚ SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN 19TH CENTURY LONDON Using visual evidence such as artworks‚ prints and photographs‚ explore how contemporaries interpreted changes in nineteenth-century London in ONE of the following themes: (i) Streets (ii) Poverty (iii) The Thames (iv) The home The theme of “Streets” in nineteenth century London encompasses many aspects of Victorian societal development. Indeed‚ studying the large-scale improvement scheme of London’s streets in the nineteenth century

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    In the Industrial Revolution‚ humans—western Europeans at first—learned to exploit coal and steam energy to mass produce goods with machines and to sell them worldwide. The Industrial Revolution began with production of textiles and eventually spread to other areas of manufacturing‚ as well as to farming and food processing. In the later nineteenth century‚ industrialization occurred on a large scale in metallurgical‚ chemical‚ and electrical industries. Once begun‚ it could not be stopped. The Industrial

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    The Industrial Revolution which took place in the 18th century was a pivotal time for most of the world. This revolution brought on the inventions of many different things and helped improve many businesses income and production rate. With the increase in business operations came the increase in urban population. For example‚ most people created businesses in the cities which brought more people in looking for employment. This caused poor living conditions for many‚ because they were left with

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    The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution took place during the 18th and 19th century and innovated the lives we live in today. It was an economic and social revolution. Economic changes that transformed the way people worked and the societies in which people lived. The Industrial Revolution was the far most reaching transformation of society. Inventors and innovators helped England become and make the transformation of the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution brought

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    The Emergence of New Consumer Culture and Its Effect during the Turn-Of-The-Century Period People living in the period from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a huge industrial change in American society. This change led to the “opening up of huge factories‚ the development of electricity in the 1880s which augmented factories more than ever‚ the revolution in mass communication‚ the invention of telephone‚ the construction of railroads‚ the incredible

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    Account for the state of public health in Britain during the Industrial Revolution The state of public health in Britain during the Industrial Revolution was very poor. There were many reasons why the standard of health was so bad. Leading up to the Industrial Revolution was the Agricultural Revolution‚ which brought about population growth and rural-urban migration. Houses were built very quickly‚ cheaply and poorly which meant there was no sanitation‚ very little running water‚ no sewerage drains

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