The Industrial Revolution affected America in many ways, Economically, Socially, politically, and finally morally. ... The Industrial Revolution strengthened the country's economy because we could rely on ourselves instead of imports. ... The industrial revolution brought entrepreneurs great riches, while the industrial workers were brought poverty, and harsh working conditions. ... The industrial revolution and politics go hand to hand, it never would've never been successful without the influential ways of the politicians. Politics never got affected from the industrial revolution ...

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With the spawn of the industrial revolution in the 19th century came a new sense of economic competition. ... The yearning for economic growth and prosperity from the times of the industrial revolution changed a few countries from the "crevices" of society to industrial strongholds that essentially changed the world's balance of power. ... Russia's ability to imitate ideas from western influence led them through their industrial revolution. ... Marxist ideas created a majority party called the Bolsheviks whose mindset was on the middle-class revolution. ... America further advan...

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There were many revolutionary inventions that contributed to the giant leap made by America during the Industrial Revolution. There were inventions in the textile industry, inventions in transportation, and many other things and people that influence the Industrial Revolution. The Railroad was one thing that played a central role in the rise of the industrial nations. ...

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A whole community of homesteaders organized among the unemployed of Dayton, and financed from federal funds, moved out of the city to lessen concentration of population in the industrial center. ... The technological changes of the industrial revolution made decentralization economical as well. ... Our abundant industrial and technical capacity was spent in the production and distribution of luxury goods and gadgets (what economists and sociologists call "unproductive" goods and services). ... However, the biggest consumer revolution was the growth of the television industry. ... In an icon...

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By 1860, the value of industrial output had surpassed that of agricultural production. ... Most industrial production occurred in the northeastern and middle states (this region also housed the bulk of America's major cities and ports). ... This period was highlighted by several innovations and inventions that increased industrial output and made work much easier. ... Industry and urban life was furthermore stimulated by a revolution in America's commerce and an expansion in internal trade. ... These two modes of transportation helped tie the industrializing East to the expanding, ag...

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Topics include America as a developing economy; trade and commerce during the revolutionary period; the industrial revolution; the American system of manufacture; the labor movement and the coming of managerial capitalism. ...

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Progressivism appealed to middle and lower class Americans who felt helpless against industrial giants like Andrew Carnegie and John D. ... These ideas appealed to people in America because they were living in poverty struggling to live in the city while these industrial beasts were thriving off of them. Many Progressives responded to industrial America's terrible working conditions by trying to make life better for workers, particularly the women and children who were considered the most vulnerable. ... America never could have risen to its dominant place in the world of industrial nat...

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During these years prior to when Progressivism had technically started, society had transformed rapidly largely due to the great advances of the Industrial Revolution. ... Individuals were directly affected by the Industrial Revolution. ...

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In the book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, William McNeill proposed a theory that explained the social relations of civilizations in the old world from 500 B.C. to 1500 A.D. His Fourfold Cultural Balance theory states there were four distinct zones (Europe, Middle East Afric...

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Similarly, the Industrial Revolution served as a catalyst for expansion, especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s, by supplying more military goods, sparking a desire for wealth and profit through innovation, and developing new methods for expansion. ...

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Amid the close of the 1800s, American society was being molded into an industrial powerhouse. ... In the dawn of industrial development in America we also see the first men to get extremely wealthy from these new opportunities. ... Overall we can see how immense the economic changes in America were due to the new industrial development. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. After intervening between Cuban and Spanish conflict, the U.S. was then dragged into the Philippine Revolution which incited the Philippine–Amer...

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I will begin by discussing the first major age of change and development, in this case, the industrial revolution. It now seems that the industrial revolution heralded the beginning of a new system that would concentrate on continuing development and heightening technology, not least when the military could find uses for them. ...

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The rise of the industrial revolution is a time in our history that has built and shaped our economy and capitalist systems today. ... During the growth of the industrial revolution there were three types of servants, the indenture was one who signed contracts generally young people to gain their passageway to the new world, these people then became servants for a certain amount of years to which they were to be work and pay off their debt. ...

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Thanks to the Industrial Revolution and the developments in public transportation, the large-scale migration was made possible. ... On the contrast of the market revolution in the North, however, white planters in southern colonies were still relying heavily on their profitable "King Cotton"" and thus relying on slavery, making no responses to social changes at all. ...

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I'd argue that pre Industrial Revolution, the synergy between the social classes was much more common than we see in the 21st century. Although this 19th century revolution had undoubtedly positive effects on America and its overall wealth, it was the point in time that started the segregation of the classes. ...

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In history, cities and towns understood that their present urban lifestyle, in particular, their patterns of division labor and functions, land-use, transport, industrial production, agriculture, consumption, and leisure activities, and hence their standard of living, made them essentially responsible for many environmental problems humankind was facing. ... Especially in a future in which information, revolution, technological advancement, and rapid, complex change are sure to dominate. ... Even with the revolution in information and technology, human beings, for the most part, are confused a...

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With the rise of The Communist Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union developed awkward relations with the United States. ... e hand at Russian cities and industrial centres. ... Castro's 26th July Movement, was established to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, and to create the Cuban Revolution. ... Cuban government was now starting to get some improvement, the Soviet Union agreed to supply Cuba with machinery for farming and industrial plants on credit that is, but this was much better than the credit Cuba received from America, oh wait a minute, what credit? ...

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According to a Ghanaian historian and lawyer named Mohamed Shaibu Abdulai, the slave trade prevented an agrarian revolution in Ghana and an industrial revolution since slavery interrupted Africa's agricultural production (Ross). ...

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Globalization is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. The development of communication technologies such as internet, laptops and mobile phones are important to the growth of globalization because they hel...

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America has come a long way since its Independence. Throughout her history she has gone through a number of changes. One of these periods in which number of reforms took place was the during the period between 1870- 1914 five political parties dominated the American politics of that time. These par...

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