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    The events that happened in the Industrial Revolution were influenced by actions in the Agricultural Revolution. Innovations like Jethro Tull’s sowing seed influenced later engineers to create more efficient machinery for their own work. Movements like the enclosure movement acted similar to the laws set in place during the Industrial Revolution, because this movement changed the way people had to work. Along with all the importance of the people, the geographical importance was very similar. With

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    America has been expanding and growing since its birth out of Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution has been an influence in the American life since it first in the 1700s. “Most families did not have enough to sell at the market- they had just enough for their own needs.” Up until the factories started booming and employment rates skyrocketed, people really couldn’t become wealthy and live a decent life. As the ways of farming grew the English at the time began to use up more and more land efficiently

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    Secondly, as the Industrial Revolution progressed the environmental conditions were degrading with it, and becoming more and more unsanitary. The Industrial Revolution caused factories to be built and those factories had no regulations on how to maintain the environment clean. Engels says, referring to those factories that, “All the filth, both liquid and solid discharged by these works finds its way into the River Irk.” Then Engels describe the river as a “narrow, coal-black, stinking river full

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    things independently had no effect on the world but when all these things occur at the same time together simultaneously its influence is so strong that it changed the world and shaped in to the greatest impactful time in all of history, the Industrial Revolution. Britain started to see a huge increase in population progression throughout the years of 1750 to 1850 going from a population of roughly six mullion to twenty million individuals.(Judge 610) This population upsurge caused Britain to improve

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    The Industrial Revolution, while a stepping stone to the technologies used today, was not an event altogether well-received by the people living in its era. It brought changes to the economic system of Europe that many were not willing to accept, including a shift from rural to urban life. According to Professor Michael Mandelbaum, traditional systems of land ownership, production, and social classes were made obsolete early into the Industrial Revolution, (Doc 5) and replaced with entirely new systems

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    Industrial Revolution From 1750-1914 the Industrial Revolution was expanding through Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution was a time when Great Britain economy was shifting from, making homemade goods by hand to factory and mill made products. They did this to produce the everyday goods that people wanted and needed, a lot less time consuming and less work. It started when business men took advantage of the power of rivers and streams to mechanize the textile history. Suddenly Mills and factories

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    The Industrial Revolution was a sudden uprising of newer technologies which caused transformations and shifts from farming and rural living to manufacturing that changed living and working conditions. The Industrial Revolution today is known as the fourth to happen. This industrial revolution is known as the revolution to improve human communications and reduce human conflicts and problems. The benefits of the Industrial revolution are very obvious. After the First Industrial Revolution, new technologies

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    The Industrial Revolution in Britain’s history is marked as the period of great development that led to the modern era of growth, improved living standards and technology. Moreover, this revolution was not just limited to Britain; it affected the rest of Europe and America in the same positive manner. Due to the Industrial Revolution’s success in many countries, it is now commonly cited as the surest way for a country to develop. In economics, goals of a developed country are high production of goods

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    unjust pay scales, treatment, and expectations. The Industrial Revolution was a result of inventions that changed the work environment by introducing factories; the provided opportunities for a woman to join the workforce and in turn leading to the first labor movement. The Industrial

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    As the 19th century was starting, so was the start of the Industrial Revolution. The 1800s began with a bang as Count Alessandro Volta invented the first battery. Volta is the reason why we now measure electricity in “volts.” About ten years later Joseph Nicephore Niepce would create a machine that could produce a likeness or photograph. The first photos were taken around his house, the process took several hours to complete. A little later in the same year, the first steamed powertrain was perfected

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