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    The Compromise of 1850 was effective for the southern states even though California was a slave free state in 1849 when California joined the union. (1) Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois managed to push this agreement for California to enter the Union as a free state but there were concessions made to slave owners about other acquisitions. (1)With this result the people in the southern states felt a relief of tension and a cause for celebration. This gave the southerners the right to retain

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    Industrial R e v o l u t i o n Henry Ford’s Famous assembly Line. Definition: An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create an end product Between 1908 and 1915‚ Henry Ford’s company Ford Motor Company‚ began to use what is now being called as the

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    Most people left their farms because of the enclosure system and moved to the towns the move from countryside to towns is call “urbanization”.Children living in urban areas during the industrial revolution had no option but to become miners‚factory workers or street kids. Most of the children were orphans (the life expectancy was not very high) and had no one to stand up for them. Mines: Around this time the demand for coal was increasing‚ because there was a shortage of flammable sources and

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    The Industrial Revolution also had an impact on human health and accelerated global warming (Rubenstein‚ 2012). Although the Earth goes through natural hot and cold phases‚ environmentalists and climate scientists have proven that within the past 50 years‚ the Earth’s

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    The Second Industrial Revolution‚ signifies a thought-provoking evolution of change in America. In 1887‚ an entrepreneur‚ and inventor from New Yorker‚ by the name of George Eastman‚ came up with the slogan‚ “You press the button‚ we do the rest.” This slogan distinguishes one of the best discoveries during this time. George Eastman invented a single box with a single shutter speed and fixed focus lens. It was a wooden‚ light-tight box with a simple lens and shutter that was filled with film. For

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    The 1860’s-1900’s was known as the Second Industrial revolution. Industrialization boomed during this time‚ and new industries such as steel‚ petroleum‚ and electricity were extremely successful. However‚ this industrial boom came at a price. The bulk of the Labor force included many new immigrants‚ particularly the poorest. Some were migrating from a farm to the city. Others even came from other countries. They came to the urban areas‚ hopeful for a job and good pay. Many did not get that chance

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    Advertising during the Industrial Revolution was one major aspect that influenced America. The “Nabisco” company for example‚ produced their biscuits in a new sealed package. Nabisco’s firsts ads featured a young boy wearing a rain jacket carrying a box of waterproof packaged biscuits through the rain. Consumer foods and products became popular making business grow larger. Aaron Montgomery Ward’s catalogue business influenced Richard W. Sears to increase the number of pages the Sears Roebuck originally

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    The industrial revolution brought about significantly social changes in Britain. It is obvious that a class of industrialists‚ ship owners‚ merchants accumulated great weath. However‚ many researchers devoted their time in investigating the effects to ordinary people. According to a post of Nardinelli (n.d)‚ there was an argument on the time when living condition were improved. “The pessimists claim no marked improvement in standards of living until the 1840s or 1850s. Most optimists‚ by contrast

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    Eish Maheshwari Industrial Revolution Research Paper During the 1750s and its subsequent years‚ the world entered an era of modernization and economic development: the Industrial Revolution. This drastic change was a transformation of the economy that impacted the lives of everyone in society‚ regardless of social status. Due to British colonial expansion into the Americas and western Africa‚ the Caribbean sugar trade brought capital into Britain that could be used for investments

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    in other countries‚ and right here in the United States. I thought that the working conditions were perfectly fine here in the U.S. until my eyes were opened by the articles that I read on the internet and in books. In the beginning of the Industrial Revolution had a considerable effect on the working conditions of workers. A large labor surplus led to very low wages‚ and intense competition lowered the profit boundaries of industrialists. Industries such as the cotton trade were especially hard

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