The industrial revolution began during the eighteenth century‚ significantly altering the lives of millions and society‚ in terms of social order‚ industry‚ and technology. A combination of advantageous factors like economic‚ social‚ cultural‚ and political components over other nations allowed Great Britain to become the first nation to industrialize and prosper. Religion played an important role‚ Queen Elizabeth I had established a Protestant country; meaning it was okay to be rich. The laissez-faire
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technology all over the world. However‚ energy changes that occurred during the Industrial Revolution impacted countless citizens all over the world in ways that affected their production and living standards. Up until the Industrial Revolution‚ wood was used for both as a fuel and a building material. American and English adoption of coal and iron as energy resources was a critical driving factor during the Industrial Revolution since the adoption improved transportation resources and promoted mass
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“The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.” Stephen Gardiner succinctly describes the Industrial Revolution with this quote as a phenomenal turning point in the world. Between the 1700s and the 1800s‚ Britain’s onset of The Industrial Revolution forever changed life for humanity throughout the world. There were several negative and positive effects of The Industrial Revolution on society. Living conditions‚ mass production‚ and public
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inventions. Inventions made it easier for people to do their jobs and get them finished quicker. Many new inventions made during this time period where the spinning jenny‚ water frame‚ steam engine and locomotive. The inventors of these inventions were Jasmes Hargreaves‚ Richard Arkwright‚ Jame ’s Watt and Richard Trevithick. New ideas‚ methods‚ and machinery helped the Industrial Revolution go at a faster pace. The spinning jenny was invented by Jasmes Hargreaves. This machine could spin eight threads
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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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Modern Industry is the manufacturing of goods in a factory. Industry took off during the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution was a period of improvement in industrial technology. Industry is mainly concentrated in three regions‚ North America‚ Europe‚ and East Asia. Each of these regions account for around 25% of industrial output in the world. Industry consist of many factories distributed around the world. Geographers work to explain the reasons for the different locations of these
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During the industrial revolution there were two types of people throughout society. Those who loved industrializing and improving their standard of living and those who felt it was necessary to worry about the environment and how the earth would be affected. Cases were brought to people on how the factories were destroying and corrupting the earth’s environment when in reality they didn’t look at the good and they had little to no information on the environment. I have believed the state of a self
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The Industrial Revolution is responsible for the way we live our lives today. During the Industrial Revolution‚ cities all throughout the world underwent dramatic changes. While industrialization brought about an improved standard of living‚ a variety of manufactured goods and better transportation of goods‚ it also resulted in often appalling living and working conditions for the poor and working classes. From the start‚ industrialization allowed populations to turn from being rural areas to mostly
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The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in the late 1700s and is defined as the movement to powered machinery. Before‚ work was done by hand‚ but five key factors changed everything. The agricultural movement increased the food supply and decreased the labor and cost of food. This led to the population boom essential for the Enclosure Movement. The Enclosure Acts allowed the rich to fence off estates‚ which forced the growing population into cities‚ creating a large labor force. Great Britain
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The Industrial Revolution opened a door of opportunity for many people during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It created job opportunities for whole families in a way that had never been done before‚ but that did not mean that these opportunities did not have costs. In Ashley’s Mines Commission‚ testimonies of mine workers of all different ages are shared and they demonstrate further detail into some of the costs that are paid for as a result of the development of mine labor progressed
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