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    The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain began in eighteenth-century due to the economic differences in many areas, the rise of factories, and the advances in technologies. The Industrial Revolution created a foundation for the modern world’s economy and helped advance the world’s markets and industries. It also affected the social system and improved the people’s living standard. Learning about the Industrial Revolution will help us understand more about the history of our prosperous economy.

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    Britain’s Industrial Revolution. Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper emphasize the importance of slavery for the development of the Industrial revolution and capitalism. However, as James Carter, Richard Warren, and Robert Marks demonstrate, global trade and new technology were just as important factors as slavery because they increased both the efficiency of production and demand for British-made goods. Carter and Warren classically connect the idea of capitalism to the Industrial revolution because

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    Jennifer Yulfo Mr. Sotak Honors English 9 5 January 2018 The Best of Times and The Worst of Times “The Industrial Revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards” (Babbitt 139). The Industrial Revolution was a time of new production methods with extraordinary results in mass production. New travel options such as steamboats,railroads, and automotive vehicles with groundbreaking speeds and cheaper means of transportation were

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    The Industrial Revolution Going to work for a full day isn’t much fun after working fifteen hours the day before! 60-70 hour work days are never pleasant in anybody’s mind. How is it that so many people did this during the Industrial Revolution? Was it because they wanted the extra money? Or was it because they wanted the high political or economic status? For some people these were the reasons, but for most it was because of one concern. Survival! The Industrial Revolution greatly changed the

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    the first industrial power it would be England (Hobsbawm 29). However, several factors were responsible for England’s emergence as an industrial power. Some of the contributing factors for the Industrial Revolution were: the increasing importance of imperial goods such as cotton, cultural traditions that stemmed from the Renaissance and the Reformation, population change, and a government willing to subordinate all foreign policy to its economic ends. Socially, the Industrial Revolution in England

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    Industrial Revolution in America The industrial revolution in America took place in the nineteenth and twentieth century. During this period there was mass production, modern technologies were made, people were getting rich and this made America to be the global superpower in the world. The united states economy grew fast. America became so rich that mark twain called it the “Gilded Age” Although there Britain was the first to have access to the industrial revolution in the 17th and 18th century

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    Due to the Industrial Revolution, many changes started occurring in this new era such as the factories began to use more mechanics, limiting skill needed to produce products as well as hastening the harvesting of raw materials. Secondarily there was a huge standard of living and wage drop in cities due to urbanization which occurred after the factories created an abundance of jobs. Also, there was a huge shift in the population and there was a massive population growth due to the excess food and

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    The Industrial Revolution started during the mid-nineteenth century. It was the major influence for the rise of Realism in the arts. Realism is a style of art that portrays the hardship and reality in life during the 1800s. Realism helped artists to express their feelings in a more realistic way, compared to the earlier style, Romanticism, which mainly contours imaginations and emotions. The Industrial Revolution facilitated the development of factories leading to. Realism artists were eager to express

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    the end of the 18th century a new revolution was formed. This period was called the Industrial Revolution, which lasted approximately 60 years. The industrial Revolution was a time when we switched from hands to machines, and industry. The movement began in Great Britain, then spread to America. New ideas, inventions, and transportation advances caused America to thrive economically. To begin with, factories were a huge contribution to the Industrial Revolution. Some change was for the greater

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    human culture since the advent of agriculture eight or ten thousand years ago, was the industrial revolution of eighteenth century Europe. The consequences of this revolution would change irrevocably human labor, consumption, family structure, social structure, and even the very soul and thoughts of the individual. This revolution involved more than technology; to be sure, there had been industrial "revolutions" throughout European history and non-European history. In Europe, for instance

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