from graphic organizer): During the time of 1890 an percentage of 18.1% children were working due to their harsh living conditions but as the years go on the percentages decreases now during the year of 1920 it was 11.3%. Conditions at the factories were very difficult for the children they had to step on the machines just so they can do the work and sometimes even get stuck in it. An example why children are getting
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In greed, there were some political, social, and economic conditions driving industrial growth from 1870 to 1890 in the United States. There were some positive and negative aspects of industrialization in the Gilded Age. Greed is good. There were more inventions produced towards the end of the chart and were getting more complex. The majority of railroads were in the east coast. They were expanded in the middle and some towards the west coast. The railroads changed from 1860 to 1890 by the total
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As factories began to use the assembly line and production rates increased, businesses were looking to hire more workers. By 1910, an estimated ten-million people were employed in factories. This was a significant increase from the mid-1800s (1E). Workers with little to no-skill now had numerous job opportunities in factories that were emerging throughout the country, but most dominantly in the northeast. As a result
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to change procedures and create safety measures as well as address questions of fair wages, hours and conduct toward workers. Reformers would go to the locations were children worked and would take pictures of the children, the environments in factories would be clearly visible surrounding the children in their natural state. Such pictures were often taken in secret, which would reveal the horrors to the public, who were not all aware of the circumstances of labor in industrialization and this shock
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The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution are two fundamentally different events. The focus of the Enlightenment was primarily intellectual. Thinkers and intellectuals were primarily focused on “reason, individualism, and progress.” (Thackeray, 1998, p. 83) The Industrial Revolution was primarily economic. The Industrial Revolution was a period of time marked by continuous increases in productivity despite outside factors such as population increases. (Thackeray, 1998, p. 140) A fundamental
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Even though It helped their parents buy their food, clothes, and earn the household money, child labor during the industrial revolution was very difficult for kids because they didn’t get to be kids and they got hurt and sick. We received our information from the two stories, The Story of my Cotton Dress and Mr.Coal’s Story. First, we will be reviewing how kids got hurt by their physical labor, when working in the cotton mill. In cotton mills, children often got hurt. Why you may ask? Because their
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Kasandra Barron Mr.Shrank ELA 5-29-18 The Milling machine helped ladies make clothes. It was good because they didn't have to work that hard. It was bad because people lost their work. It affected them because they needed money to survive.The technology made the work easier but it made their lives better because they would get paid and maybe maintain themselves. The technologies affected a lot of lives of workers Because When they created machines they didn't need workers and the workers wouldn't
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of the time. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because of the influential factory system and economic stability, it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were the unsafe and unsanitary working conditions, the tremendous air and water pollution, and the
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Harriet Robinson, who worked as a factory worker in Lowell, once wrote in her autobiography that “[mill life] lets...[society] see the women as active participants in their own lives” (Halsall 2). Nothing could be more true. Lowell, Massachusetts, a city filled with mills powered by the Merrimack River, became the country’s dream- a place where industry and economy flourished (“At the Clang”). As with Lowell, girls from New England flocked to mills and factories in search of a better life and new
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“The Sadler Report” shed light on a very important topic during the Industrial Revolution. The theme was to reveal child labor issues within the textile industries and their severity of treatment. Sadler’s 89 testimonies of children workers during this time period revealed the inhumane treatment. They were overworked, some as long as 14 or 16-hour days and were beaten, strapped, or thrashed. Many children were not given adequate breaks, and often had food withheld as a form of punishment. Tardiness
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