The Blacksmith In The 13 Colonies

During “the 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution triggered a series of radical changes national cultural fabric of state societies, the pressures of modernization were also transforming the way of life in traditional communities of peasant and other rural folk” (Haviland et al. 349). One of these transformations brought about by the Industrial Revolution is the invention of the factory. The factory, like capitalism, originated in England, but eventually made its way to America, specifically the region of New England. The factory caused artisans to lose autonomy, now forced to work

The Middle Colonies consist of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania otherwise known as the “Breadbasket Colonies” due to their excessive amount of grains and bread. The colonies were economically based on the trading of wheat and grains and as well timber production for shipbuilding. The Middle Colonies were focused on freedom of religion and no taxation without representation. The Middle Colonies were the most diverse inhabitant region out of all the colonies. These groups include the English, Swedes, Dutch, Germans, Scots- Irish, French, Africans and the Native Americans. During the 18th century the middle colonies relied heavily on indentured servants than other region. For instance Pennsylvania was settled by a group of Indentured

Beginning 1625, the first colonies in America was established in the Chesapeake, New England, and Carolina region. More than 250,000 European settlers came over to the colonies, along with 300,000 West African slaves. The colonial societies would become the area for gold, god, and glory. Some of the colonies flourished while some struggled to survive.

During the late 1700s, production and manufacturing were centralized around people’s homes and farms. The majority of the work produced was done to provide for individual or community use; often hard labor, basic machines, and hand tools were used to carry out tasks. An era of powered machines and factories created the Industrial mark across the nation. Textile and iron industries developed the steam engine to help improve transportation and exchange to increase manufactured goods. While the impact improved the standard of living for a small majority, others a large majority remained poor and living in poverty. Urban cities that housed large manufacturing plants that provided jobs in often overcrowded cities and poor living conditions.

During the early 1800’s in the United States of America, both the Early Industrial Revolution and the Westward Expansion contributed to the sectional tension between the North and the South. While the North had factories popping up everywhere, the South had more and more land dedicated to plantations. To stay at the pace of the North, the South decided it would be beneficial if they were to become their cotton suppliers. With the invention of the cotton gin, cotton was being mass-produced and sent to the North to be made into items such as clothing. Whilst this was going on, the point of slavery became a big issue and the debate over it began, dividing the North and South more and more over time. The North didn't support slavery and instead, hired workers to work in the factories (specifically low-wage woman), while the South supported slavery and used African slaves to work on plantations. This caused many problems as both sides wanted more land to promote their opinion on slavery for either plantations or factories. Due to each of the sides having contradictory points of view on slavery, the Missouri Compromise and the addition of other territories such as during the Louisiana Purchase, the Oregon Treaty, and the Annexation of Texas, much strife occurred in the Senate. The Westward Expansion led to the desire for more land, therefore the United States expanded their land from the East coast to the West coast. The Westward Expansion promoted the addition of new land and

The Early American Industrial Revolution and Westward Expansion, two interconnected yet independent occurrences, were significant events in the Antebellum Era. The Early Industrial Revolution utilized new inventions to improve the United State’s economy and change lifestyles (Hakim NN 105; Hakim NN 107). It had offered new opportunities and transformed America 's farm economy into a market economy, which is, arguably, more efficient (Hakim NN 109). While Westward Expansion extended America’s borders, fueled by a popular ideal known as “manifest destiny, it caused many disputes amongst the American citizens, creating complications in Congress (Hakim 62-63). As shown, the Industrial Revolution and Westward Expansion were both major changes for America 's economy, each with its own benefits and disadvantages (Hakim NN 103-109; Hakim 58-59). The Early Industrial Revolution and Westward Expansion promoted and enhanced the effects of each other; the increased production of textiles urged Southern farmers to expand their plantations, which in turn, produced more raw materials for the Northern industrial workers to process (Hakim NN 103-109; Hakim 58-59). While both, as shown above, had improved the economy and allowed some freedom for the workers in free states which would otherwise not have, they also promoted slavery, which, at the time, was an ongoing issue

The next most interesting trade in the colonial period was Gunsmiths. It is very neat to me how the gunsmiths didn’t only work with metals but also with wood. In fact, the stock of a gun was made with one piece of wood and later engraved. Even the metal used in the guns were intricately engraved as well. The gunsmith wasn’t just limited to making firearms

In the mid-1800s lots of things were being made by machine. For example: clothing, shoes, watches, guns, and farming machines were made. In 1840 the workday was 11 ½ hours. The workers were very tired and they most likely would have accidents. Workers and even children were hurt a lot by the machines. In the summer they were hot and in the winter they were cold, because there was not air conditioning or a heater in the factories. There were no laws to help the working conditions, and even to protect them. The owners didn't care about the workers, they cared about the money. Children would work six days a week and 12 hours or more a day. In the factories it was really hard and dangerous. Children would work the machines

Before Revolutionary America, there were a large majority of people who made a living as farm owners, tenants, or hired hands, in which unskilled labored supported such the agricultural workers. (Carrell & Heavrin, 2013). Also, the craftspeople were carpenters, shipwrights, sailmakers, weavers, masons, barrel makers, glass makers, tailors, and shoemakers. It has further been mentioned that prior to trade unions, these workers joined together to maintain monopolies. The first craftspeople were known to be free laborers, which were immigrants who paid their way to the New world, in which they learned certain trades and passed them along to their children (Carrell & Hearvin, 2013). It has also been stated how indentured servants and slaves who

Gunsmithing takes technique and skill. Not just anyone can put as much detail and effort in creating a firearm. It is amazing to see all the detail in creating weapons. It is not easy to build something by hand, which makes Gunsmithing even more of a tedious job. Tailoring is also another important job that was well-known to everyone in the 1800’s. Being able to tailor was a big deal due to it being in high demand by both women and men, having a form fitted corset was important to women. It is new to me to learn that boys and girls would wear stays to help with their posture as kids growing up. Almost everything anyone would wear had to be tailored to their specific fit. To this day tailoring is commonly used to help with the fit of clothing, although corsets are not as popular as they once were. Being able to tailor clothing is a great trade to learn as it is always in demand and it takes talent to have such perfection in the different

Throughout Cultural Perspectives, many influential texts have been read, analyzed, and discussed. One text, Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, integrates the thoughts of quite a few authors that have been discussed this semester. Through employing a Marxist view of history—there are always the “haves” and the “have-nots”—one can see that Life in the Iron Mills exemplifies the struggles that face many “have-not” citizens throughout history. One can then see the clear connections to various authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, W.E.B. DuBois, Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels, and Adam Smith.

The Industrial Revolution created many opportunities and successes for businesses, including Josiah Wedgwood, which marked the transition from hand production to mass production methods. The nature of Josiah Wedgwood’s competitive advantage is first-mover differentiator for the following reasons. First, Josiah created demand and sustained customer loyalty by focusing on marketing his brand equity as premium products with high quality instead of trying to mass produce to increase supply. One of the company’s sale strategy, which differentiated it from competitors, was to produce highly customized products for one-time order. Second, the company targeted at the niche market, whose products are mostly made for the aristocracy and the emerging

Lucius Beebe critically analyzes Edwin Arlington Robinson’s, The Mill best. Beebe’s analysis is from an objective point of view. He points out to the reader that what seems so obvious may not be. She notes “The Mill is just a sad little tale of double suicide brought on by the encroachment of the modern world and by personal loss.” Thus meaning The Mill carries a deeper underlying theme. Lucius Beebe expresses that a minor overflow of significant details has been exposed over Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The Mill," much of it concerned with whether the miller's wife did indeed drown herself after the miller had hanged himself. Another, even more provocative question has never been asked: did the

The novel portrayed the Weavers Guild as a group of regulators put in place to provide credit where it should be, to make sure tapestries met a certain standard, and to set rules about labor (working days and who is allowed to weave). As I mentioned earlier, allowing Christine to weave was against the Guild’s rules. If she was caught, Georges would be fined or even shut down. At one point in the novel, a fellow weaver stopped by Georges’ house to look at the tapestries but was really spying in hopes of seeing a rule being broken so he could go to the Guild and have one less weaver to compete with. Before that, Leon recognized a portion of color-blending Georges used that was originally produced by another weaver. Georges would have been fined

Their is the invention call bellows it allows the blacksmith to control the temperature instead of blowing into the forge. The variety of tools and objects are daggers, swords, lances, arrowheads and they also siege weapons and armor and shields they also make nails, tools, church and castle doors like hinges keys locks. They also made portcullis, instrument of torture and chains and households items like knives, light fittings, pokers and those are the household items and ornaments jewelry decorative objects. The different types of blacksmiths are village blacksmiths and castle blacksmiths, city of town blacksmiths and medieval blacksmiths. The meaning of medieval blacksmiths is that they was important part of fighting army by making new weapons when they needed new ones and by keeping up with the supply of arrowheads and they also half to keep up with the maintenance on the old weapons and armor and repairing them. The daily life of a medieval blacksmith is making armor or repairing and making thing for the people and it depends on where the blacksmith is at or if they are in