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    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, played central roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking. While industrialization brought about an increased volume and variety of manufactured goods and an improved

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    British industrialization was concentrated in those areas which had experienced prior proto-industrialisation. Therefore proto-industry was necessary for factory industry---discuss. British industrialization was concentrated in those areas which had experienced prior proto-industrialisation. Therefore proto-industry was necessary for factory industry---discuss. One model, proposed by Mendels, was that proto-industry was responsible for the rapid expansion in population, in what he called

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    While reconstruction and industrialization opened up many doors for minorities, the timing of everything was very poor. Minorities specifically African Americans had just gotten their freedom and were just starting to try to catch their footing finicialy. This put them behind the eight ball, because as too many of us are familiar with you need money to make money. This was a sad reality for a lot of our nation during reconstruction and industrialization, and because of this reality many suffered

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    William Blake, Document Five by Leonard Deming, Document Six by Jacob Riis and Jessie Tarbox Beals, and Document Seven by Szreter S. and Mooney G. The rapid economic growth caused by industrialization had tremendous negative as well as positive effects on the quality of life for humans. Moreover, industrialization has many negative effects on the quality of life for humans. For example, in Document One, Fredrikke Palmer depicts a picture of a spider web with

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    Effects of Industrialization Imagine yourself and your child working a plethora amount of excruciating hours just so you and your family could make a living but inevitably stay in a building with people that you probably work with. Industrialization in the United States developed when more and more machines were being invented to produce mass production, workers would go from making and producing things by hand to later inventing machines to work in factories and in plantations. Industrialization was when

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    1900, cities had become a world of newcomers (551). America evolved into a land of factories, corporate enterprise, and industrial worker and, the surge in immigration supplied their workers. In the latter half of the 19th century, continued industrialization and urbanization sparked an increasing demand for a larger and cheaper labor force. The country's transformation from a rural agricultural society into an urban industrial nation attracted immigrants worldwide. As free land and free labor disappeared

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    aspects of industrialization between 1865 and 1920 that influenced US society, economy, and politics. A. The shift from an agrarian to factory based society. Prior to Industrialization, America possessed mainly agrarian economy based on the hand labor. However, after the Civil War, the American economy changed dramatically: machines replaced hand labor and increased the production and trade capacities of the industry. Thus, one of the major aspects of Industrialization

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    3rd one this month.” Industrialization developed in the united states as people began to find easier ways to make and acquire goods that kept costs down which led to more profit on the end of the owners of these new businesses. Industrialization was a time of great economic progress for the united states as we were finally able to evolve from the harsh labor of agricultural work and began to mass produce goods that greatly benefited our economy. Because of industrialization many people were able

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    adaptations of cultural foundations, entrepreneurial spirit and a consumer revolution drove the industrialisation in Britain. The effects of the industrial revolution were beneficial for the working class of the British society in the 19th century. Industrialization resulted in the phenomenon of urbanization, as a growing number of people moved to urban cities searching for employment. Prosperous industrialists, such as ship owners and merchants dominated, accumulating great wealth over time. This period

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    Gilded Age was a period from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in which Americans greatly increased the rate of industrialization, bringing rise to many economic and social problems. Although many people responded to these problems, two of the most famous were Andrew Carnegie, a wealthy “captain of industry,” and Upton Sinclair, a novelist. Industrialization brought about many economic and social problems. It brought a great amount of wealth to very few and brought poverty to many,

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