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Taken from a letter written by Franklin for Joseph Priestley, an English chemist, the quote attempts to answer the question, what is Enlightenment? The purpose of the letter was to thank Priestley for his critic on a paper Franklin had written on the Aurora Borealis. This letter was written during the Enlightenment, which included writers that focused on an exchange of ideas. This time period was not just about intellectual improvements, but also political and social improvements. There were…

change, the use of new materials being used like iron and steel, which colonized the boom of the Industrial revolution (c.1760-1860) Causing changes to sculpture and architecture. New Technologies which included inventions of transport cars, trams, steam trains that allowed people and goods to travel, more rapidly unlike anything before. The invention of the light bulb allowing people to stay awake for longer periods, household goods like the vacuum cleaner, made peoples home life…

The Industrial Revolution has been described as a mixed blessing. I agree with this statement for many reasons. When it says “mixed blessings” it's saying that it had both good and bad effects on people and ways of living. Some good effects/blessings it had were how it increased the production of goods, raise the standards of living, provided hope of improvement in peoples lives, included healthier diets, better housing, mass produced clothing, and expanded educational opportunities. Some…

Transportation in early America wasn’t as easily accomplished as it is today. It was difficult to transport people, much less products, anywhere. For that reason, everyone agreed that a better means of transportation was necessary. The development of roads and canals had an impact on many things in early America. They affected the environment, speed of travel, new destinations, economic growth, and western settlement. The new and improved roads in America vastly influenced the…

Many children at a tender age are forced to work long hours in factories that contain many hazardous conditions that make their lives difficult. Although child labor benefits many businesses, the children suffer terribly from beatings, deleterious factory conditions, and many health issues. Children not only work excessive work hours that tire them mentally and physically, they also receive brutal beatings for simple little errors. Elizabeth Bentley was interviewed discussing her experience…

Before the 1800’s, most Americans were farmers and most goods were produced by hand, but when the Industrial Revolution came into play everything slowly changed. Machines replaced almost everything. There were a lot of new power sources. For example; sewing machines, made our clothes quicker that it would if we would of hand sewn it like always. While most Americans continued to farm for a living, the economy began to shift toward manufacturing. There are a couple positive and negative effects…

19th century Britain was a place experiencing massive change in almost every facet of life. The industrialization of the country radically altered its economy, attempts to close the wage gap altered it socially, a century of wars and complex foreign affairs altered its geopolitical landscape, and calls for equality among the citizens changed it politically. More specifically, these calls for equality drastically changed the electorate of Britain and led to more equal representation in Parliament…

In large factories, there is a lot of heavy machinery and the use of many harsh equipment. As stated in “Much Too Young to Work so hard” it says that two young boys have died in a coal mine because of these dangerous conditions. Yet,around these dangerous devices are children! Though being paid to work, they work in very harsh conditions that are very dangerous for them. They are only getting paid very little, much less than deserved. These children are also deprived of their education and…

with the start of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. There are largely considered to be three major changes that helped to bring about the Industrial Revolution. They are the invention of machines to do the work of hand tools, the use of steam, other kinds of power, in place of the muscles of human beings and of animals and the adoption of…

Generating new advancements in technology is how an economy prospers. And new advancements in technology happen when a number of innovative thinkers plant their ideas together and work to make them come alive. In America, technological progress came a bit after the turn of the 1800's. Manufacturing, transportation, and the rise of large cities, were all causes of America's economic growth. However, there were also consequences that fallowed as a result of America's prosperity. The concepts…