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    "Did life improve‚ for the children of farm labourers and the working class‚ during the Industrial Revolution?" The children of the 18th and 19th centuries (1750s to 1850s)‚ during the Industrial Revolution in Britain‚ endured harsh times. They had to sacrifice their childhood to work and earn money for their family. The lives of these children of farm labourers and the working class didn’t improve during the Industrial Revolution. There were many benefits for these children‚ such as Laws‚ Leisure

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    Journal Article Review – Methodology We now move on to a discussion methodology‚ and the approach evident in the journal article. Methodology can be defined as the analysis of the principles or procedures of inquiry in a particular field. A methodology is a construct of the source and audience for which they are intended. For this reason‚ in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the methodologies adopted by the author‚ one must first understand the author‚ source and intended audience.

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    The Industrial Revolution itself refers to affects from social‚ cultural and economic conditions. Throughout the years‚ changes have taken place in the home production to machine and factory and now modern technology. The Industrial Revolution (1820-1870) was of great importance to the economic development of the United States. In the late 18th century‚ Britain and Europe began the first Industrial Revolution. After sometime‚ the development centralized on the United States and Germany. Inventions

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    The Salem Witch Trials In Cotton Mather’s account of the trial of Martha Carrier‚ the witnesses use confessions of other witches incriminating the accused‚ physical evidence‚ anger resulting in mischief done to the person‚ and spectral evidence. Increase Mather would not have convicted Martha Carrier‚ he would have judged the presented evidence as unreliable because the majority of it was based heavily on witnesses’ testimonies‚ which Increase Mather did not consider as a valid source‚ as well

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    Factories In 1800s

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    1. How did the introduction of factories in the 1800s change the lives of people in Britain? The introduction of factories in Britain had some positives and negatives changes‚ it made the production of cotton‚ cigarettes and all the other things easier and cheaper‚ but it begun the child labour and people had terrible conditions. It was an evolution of the technologies‚ but also destroyed the life of many people. 2. What were the key differences between working in the domestic system and working

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    Hear the loud sound of machines? Smell that nasty smog that is in the air? That is the product of the industrial revolution and it must be stopped. The industrial revolution is causing child labor‚ people are starving‚ and it is changing the class structure. One of the many negative effects of the of the industrial revolution‚ are the living conditions of people who are working in the factories. Workers are forced to work long hours‚ have low pay for the long hours they put into their work‚ and

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    The industrial revolution was an era of great change to those in Britain and America. This transforming period took place during the 1760s through to the 1840s‚ when it transformed the society into our world today. Due to the quickly changing agrarian culture towns and villages soon became deserted due to everyone migrating to the cities this created the Urbanisation society and prompted inventions to be shaped and built. Where with a push of a button we can communicate with our distant friends and

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    Industrial Boom Causes

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    Mackenzie Miers Honors English 14 December 2013 The Causes of the Industrial Boom Before 1860‚ the United States was known as an agricultural based nation. The United States had so much land that could be cheaply bought‚ labor work was too costly‚ and products could not be shipped quick enough. For the United States‚ being a farming community simply made more sense. While over in Europe‚ especially England‚ industrial factories were booming immensely. Except there was a great

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    “Industrial Revolution implies industrialisation – that is‚ both the absolute growth of industry‚ and its expansion relative to the other sectors of the economy‚ those being agriculture and services.” This was the time that financial production moved from the use of hand tools to the use of power machinery‚ powered mostly by coal and steam. The method of powering machines went from using the working-class to powered machines doing all the work for the working-class. These machines were able to work

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    Samuel Crompton

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    efficient--was finished in 1779‚ just after Crompton’s twenty-seventh birthday. The spinning mule used the two most important elements of the water-frame and the spinning jenny. From Arkwright’s water frame it borrowed a set of rollers to draw out the cotton fibers; from the jenny‚ a moving carriage that gently stretched the roving. Added to this was Crompton’s own spindle carriage‚ which insured that no tension was applied to the yarn before it had been completely spun. The yarn spun by this machine

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