The Effect of the Industrial Revoltution

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. 

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?

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