Authors Note
I have always been interested in the Industrial world, but I never quite understood how
Industry became such a big part of the modern day world, when all I had read about was agriculture in early America. My research lead me to the Industrial Revolution, which spouted my driving question, what was the Industrial Revolutions affect on modern day society. In this piece, I tried organize all the information I had learned while researching. I also wanted to use a strong introduction and a thoughtful conclusion.
Industry became such a big part of the modern day world, when all I had read about was agriculture in early America. My research lead me to the Industrial Revolution, which spouted my driving question, what was the Industrial Revolutions affect on modern day society. In this piece, I tried organize all the information I had learned while researching. I also wanted to use a strong introduction and a thoughtful conclusion.
The Effect of the Industrial
Revolution
In 1750, the world was much different from today. Cars
didn’t dot the streets, with sky scrapers reaching into the skies, stretching
as far as their little fingers can reach. There weren't huge cities, crowded
with people, bustling about to their jobs. No. The world was much different back then, and the Industrial Revolution was the turning point into the modern world.
The Agricultural Revolution was just ending in the mid to
late 1700s. In the United Kingdom, people had started to take the ideas of mass
farming into the world of production. Factories
started popping up all over the country, and the world followed right behind. As immigrants from Great Britain started pouring into America, the United
States began the same process. The Industrial
Revolution had the jump start it needed and the change of the world had just begun.
Before the Industrial Revolution, people were spread across
the world, trading for essentials at a local market, but the Industrial
Revolution was based on inventions that were part of transportation as well as
industry. One of the major inventions was the steam powered engine, which helped
run some of the first trains during the revolution. Before the Industrial
Revolution, people were born into wealth and could do nothing their whole and still be wealthy.Some were born into poverty or a farming family, and no matter
how hard they worked they struggled to make ends meet. This was the middle class of the day, but there were no
success stories.During the Industrial Revolution though, people from the
middle class started invented machines, which started what we think of as
modern day society, where you are rewarded for the work you do, and if you work
hard, you can write your own story. Also mass production and easier transportation
allowed for prices on necessities like food and clothing to be cut, and the quality
of life for poor families became greater and greater.
Great Britain was the pioneer in a chain of events that
played a major role in what is the modern day society. This chain of events
increased the quality of life in the world, but it also had negative effects on
the environment. To create room for giant factories, people started to cut down
forest, and now fossil fuel, like coal and oil, use spiked during the
Industrial Revolution. Two of the most controversial topics in the world right
now dealing with the environment like . Now people are trying to reverse the effects,
but we’ve grown accustom to what modern day society is, and we have not
invented the technology to live our everyday lives without hurting the
environment. Global warming, cars, pollution, iPhones; what does this list have
in common? They all were made possible because of the Industrial Revolution.
That brings up the next question, was the Industrial Revolution really a good
thing?
