The Market revolution was an economic transformation‚ a scene of the innovation of transportation such as the; steamboat‚ man-made canals‚ railroad and communication such as the telegraph. Steamboats “helped to bring economic development to the trans Appalachian west”‚ up the Erie Canal the world’s largest man-made waterway that connected the region around the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Coast via the Hudson River. The railroads opened vast new areas of the American interior for settlement while
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"pauper apprentices"‚ working without wages for board and lodging.Those who ran away would be whipped and returned to their masters‚ with some masters shackling them to prevent escape. Children employed as mule scavengers by cotton mills would crawl under machinery to pick up cotton‚ working 14 hours a day‚ six days a week. Some lost hands or limbs‚ others were crushed under the machines‚ and some were decapitated. Young girls worked at match factories‚ where phosphorus fumes would cause many to develop
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rising manufacturers in the United States‚ which war has forced into existence‚ contrary to the natural course of things." They attempted to execute this plan by flooding American soil with inexpensive British manufactured goods. New England textile mills‚ Pennsylvania iron-smelters‚ hemp-growers of Kentucky‚ the wool-growers of Ohio and Vermont‚ and "an assortment [not the majority‚ however] of Southerners and Westerners who hoped to promote industry or to expand their domestic market " knew that the
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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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Before the Industrial Revolution in the Great Britain in the 1800s‚ the British could not create cotton material easier or quick enough for people to meet their daily schedules and to produce agriculture such as fruits‚ vegetables‚ bread‚ water‚ and raised farm animals. It was very hard for farmers and cotton workers to facilitate their schedule or save time while there were no machines or factories that yet existed before they were invented or built. Since they were no existing machines or factories
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The tag‚ Industrial Revolution‚ was derived from the term industrialization. Industrialization refers to the process in which a society formerly based on agriculture‚ transforms into one based around manufacturing. Manual labor is turned into mass production and often changes from individuals making a product to assembly lines or machines making that same product. The Industrial Revolution had many significant effects on the development of the Americas such as‚ revolutionizing the way people worked
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world’s major source for tobacco‚ cotton‚ and other agricultural products. A labor revolution started to occur in the United States throughout the early 1800’s. There was a shift from an agricultural economy to an industrial market system. After the War of 1812‚ the domestic marketplace changed due to the strong pressure of social and economic forces. Major innovations in transportation allowed the movement of information‚ people‚ and merchandise. Textile mills and factories became an important
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Strutt equipped him in not only operating machinery‚ but he was also very educated in building and repairing of them also. Slater built the first successful textile mill the United States had ever seen. His ideas were copied and multiplied from then on. This was the beginning of many inventors to come. Such as Eli Whitney‚ with his cotton gin and interchangeable parts; Robert Fulton‚ and his steamboats‚ along with many more. Soon after the steam boats‚ came the Erie Canal‚ giving way to cheaper
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carding and spinningmills‚ weavingmills‚ mills for everything. The human hand and human intelligence are not separated.” The first industry to be revolutionized was
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large factories- the textile mills of New England- sought out independent‚ hard-working farm girls to work in them.” Francis Cabot Lowell was one of the first to employ young women to work for him. In his famous Lowell mills‚ it was not hard to bring in workers. Female workers loved the idea that they could make more money working in a mill than they ever could being a domestic servant or school teacher‚ which was pretty much the only other option for them. The Lowell mills provided them with a place
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