Industrial Revolution Dbq

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The 1830s Industrial Capitalism had begun, and with it came ups and downs. It was one of the most significant times in American history. However, it took a while for America to become the land of Robber barons in 1890.
The exact beginning and end of the Industrial Revolution is still debated amid historians, as is the rate of and end of the Industrial Revolution is still debated among historians, as is the pace of financial and social changes. Eric Hobsbawm stated that the Industrial revolution wasn’t fully felt until the 1830s or 1840s, while other historians believed that it transpired approximately between 1760 and 1830.
The beginning of the Industrial Revolution is closely associated with a few innovations, starting in the second half …show more content…

Some felt factory owners felt as though they were helping the poor by giving children money to buy food for themselves in order to prevent starvation, other factory owners just liked cheap. In 1833 and 1844, the first widespread laws against child labour, called the Factory Acts, were passed in Britain: Children below the age of nine were not permitted to work, children were not allowed to work at night, and the work day of children under the age of 18 was restricted to twelve hours. Factory inspectors oversaw that factory workers abided by the law, but the the execution of the law, however, the insufficiency made enforcement …show more content…

The economic recession transpired from the late 1830s to the early 1840s when the adoption of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, such as mechanized weaving and spinning, decelerated and their markets grew. Innovations created late in the period, such as growing adoption of steamboats, locomotives, and steamships, and new technologies, such as the electrical telegraph, widely established in the 1840s and 1850s, were not strong enough to drive high rates of development. Swift financial growth started to occur after 1870, originating from a new group of innovations in what is called the Second Industrial Revolution. These new inventions included new steel making processes, the large-scale manufacture of machine tools and the use of increasingly advanced machinery in steam-powered factories.
Then came the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, resulted from long-standing sectional questions and contrast not fully settled when the United States Constitution was confirmed in 1789, mainly the issues of states’ rights and slavery. With the conquer of the Southern Confederacy and the succeeding passage of XIII, XIV, and XV amendments to the Constitution, the Civil War’s long-lasting results including terminating slavery in America and firmly redefining the United States as an indivisible nation rather than a loosely bound set of independent

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