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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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    Child Labour In The 1800s

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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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    Slave Life In The 1800s

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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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    Women in the 1800’s were very segregated from men compared to women today. Many of us don’t stop to think about all the hard work and bravery women put in for us to have the privileges we have in our modern society. The women in America During the late 1800s were treated unequally to men because they couldn’t vote‚ they had no job opportunities‚ and were controlled in marriage. Women were unable to vote; just men. Also‚ women weren’t allowed to choose laws. It’s unfair that men were the only ones

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    INDUSTRIALIZATION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR Industrialization led to urbanization in most of the major city centers which led to bigger business. This change in enterprise is what changed/influenced the politics of not only the cities themselves‚ but the country as a whole. During the industrialization that followed the end of the civil war‚ there were many opportunities for American’s. Not all American’s would benefit from such advances though. The rise of big business game way for many groundbreaking

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    1.1 INDUSTRIALIZATION Clarence Zuvekas‚ Jr. (1979) defined industrialization as process of transforming raw materials with the aid of Human resources and capital goods into consumer goods‚ new capital goods which permit more consumer goods (including food) and social overhead capital‚ which together with human resources provide new services to both individuals and business. Joseph E. Imhanlahimhin defines industrialization “as a process of a country’s heavy dependence on large amount of goods manufactured

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