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    moving to the city to work in industrial factories and you should be too. Why would you work in the fields with your own bare hands, if you could come to an industrial factory and have the machines to do all your work for you? People like you and your family are coming to the city for an easier and better life. Making a living is easier in the city than in the countryside. The industrial revolution is the best thing that has ever happened. The industrial revolution has made better machinery, changed

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    rapidly. Prior to the industrial revolution, coal was not even considered a commodity of any sort. The mineral was difficult to get to and mine and no one had much reason for needing vast quantities of coal. However, with the advent of the steam engine, crucial to the shipping, transportation and manufacturing industries, coal was in great demand.(Carter and Warren, 181). The industrial revolution also affected the economy and the policies which governed it. The industrial revolution was fueled by capitalism

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    The Industrial Revolution brought so many advances in the beginning of the 18th century and spread throughout the world. Even though we’ve become modernized by the cause of the Industrial Revolution, we’ve encountered so many hardships, creating instability in society around the world. This advancement at the time has created the rise of capitalism, affected labor among the people and lead to horrible living conditions in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. As the Industrial Revolution

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    Before the Industrial Revolution, people lived very simple lives, which included farming, production of their own needed goods, and people traded locally. Some factors that caused the Industrial revolution were enough people had the necessary skills for labor, natural resources with economic value were used to make products, and the capital had enough money to support to start a business. The industrial revolution started from the late 1700’s to the early 1900’s. The Industrial Revolution was simply

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    Industrial Revolution: Mass Production Introduction: Most things people in the industrialized nations use today are turned out rapidly by the technique of extensive scale fabricating, by people (and now and again, robots) tackling successive development frameworks using power-driven machines. People of antiquated and medieval times had no such things. They expected to spend long, dull hours of hand work even on fundamental things. The essentialness, or power, they used in work came totally from their

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    The Industrial Revolution changed the way people traveled as well as how food, clothing, animals, and other goods were transported. Before the Industrial Revolution, transportation relied on animals and boats to get things around. Travel was slow and difficult before the industrial revolution began. It could take months just to travel across the United States in the early 1800s. The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th century to 19th century, was a period during which mainly agrarian

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    -------------------------The Industrial Revolution was implementation of new manufacturing processes during the time period of the 18th and 19th century. Prior to the industrial revolution manufacturing was done at people’s homes in rural locations. After the industrial revolution began jobs were moved from rural homes into city factories which resulted in a change in the volume and the variety of goods being produced, but also the people’s standard of living to change. ----------------------Before

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    Inventions of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was a period between the 18th and 19th centuries where countries in Europe and America changed from agriculture to industrial societies. Born in Britain, the Industrial Revolution took a while to make it to America. Access to plenty of coal and iron gave Britain a good foundation to start the Industrial Revolution. Many inventions and discoveries changed manufacturing from being done by individuals in homes to teams of people in big

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    Final Paper: Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution took place during the 18th and 19th century. It changed the way our products, including cloth and textiles, were manufactured. It was called a revolution because it was the spark of steam power and factory work, thus ringing in a new era of industrial technology. It greatly affected the way people lived and worked. This revolution helped shaped the modern world we live in today. The Industrial Revolution refers to a change from hand

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    Huang 1 Chu Chu Chu Ms. Glenn United States History I I November 21, 2017 Industrial Revolution The industrial revolution was kind to the advancement of mankind but not to those who worked to advance mankind. For better or for worse, the industrial revolution was a time period in which many changes took place in England. Mankind would eventually benefit from all the technological advancements made at this time. But the citizens of the time suffered through horrible work conditions. Some historians

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