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    environment. Industrial revolution was so fundamental that it’s often compared with the transition from farming to stock raising, which began several thousand years before the birth of Christ. Considering the uses of natural resources, can human history be dived up into three pieces of varying length; hundreds of thousands years before “the agricultural revolution”, thousands of years between this and the Industrial revolution and the two hundreds years after the beginning of Industrial

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    During the height of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, specifically England, was a period of mass sufferings, child induced labor, and food shortages all due to the rapid growth of urbanization and industrialization, in which a large population of the people from rural areas migrated to cities and towns out of necessity for work, “half of the population of England and Wales was living in towns by 1850.” This was all witnessed by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels when they were living in England in

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    The Industrial Revolution was a predominantly negative period in history, greatly affecting the lives of the poor working-class. Starting in 1750, rapid urbanization occurred, resulting in the higher and middle-class benefiting; but only because they were rich before it began. The working-class, however, became even more unfortunate as the era went on and were forced to become factory workers or miners. These men, women and children all faced harsh environmental factors, including the new technology

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    The impact of the Industrial Revolution had a major effect on the rest of Europe. Even though Europe was slowed down by the French Revolution they got caught up mostly. The UK is the leading country of the Industrial Revolution. Many new technological developments had been made through the Industrial Revolutions. In western Europe, the population had grown rapidly causing demand for more things. In western Europe major changes were made in the economy due to a huge population growth during the late

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    The Industrial Revolution impacted the United States in the first half of the 19th century economically, socially, and politically. Historically, the Industrial Revolution initiated in Great Britain due to it's ample amount of raw materials, amount of natural harbors, and population size. The Industrial Revolution made its way into the United States as a result of the Embargo Act, which prevented the export of American goods and the import other nations goods to the United States, and the War of

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    that without the Industrial Revolution, we wouldn’t have most of the modern technology we have today. The Industrial Revolution was a change in the way people made stuff. Before people used to make stuff by hand. However, thanks to natural resources, the industrial revolution was born and took away that need by making factories and wondrous new machines. Which is great because the natural resources such as coal and iron found in the geography of england caused the Industrial Revolution which created

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    part of the 18th century, a new revolution gripped the world that we were not ready for (Perry, 510). This revolution was not a political one, but it would lead to many implications later in its existence (Perry, 510). Neither was this a social or Cultural Revolution, but an economic one (Perry, 510). The Industrial revolution, as historians call it, began the modern world. It began the world we live in today and our way of life in that world. It is called a revolution because the changes it made were

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    The Second Industrial Revolution was sparked by the creation of the railroad. During the Civil War, railroads existed and were helpful in bringing supplies to troops, but they weren’t very reliable as they would only go on for as long as the owner of the railroad had land. When the owner of the railroad ran out of land, the railroad would end, and people would have to move the things from the railroad to another railroad. People did realize, however, how well a railroad could work if they were all

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    The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries CE, was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing was often done in people’s homes, using hand tools or basic machines. Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. The iron and textile industries, along with the development of the steam engine,

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    The Industrial Revolution was a revolution in every sense of the word, as it altered almost every aspect of live in the nineteenth century including technology, government, communication, environment and eventually society as a whole.1 Although industrialisation created many positives for modern society, for people in Britain up to the end of the nineteenth century it had many significantly negative consequences. With the long term advances made for society came the then current development of overcrowding

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