Industrial Revolution Dbq

Since the beginning of humankind, there were many events that helped the world, but the most important event of all is the industrial revolution which surely helped influence many countries all over the world, but most specifically Great Britain. The industrial revolution caused major changes in Britain, it helped improve farming and trade. It also helped influence Britain scientists and engineers into building many other machines that helped improve the country by making workers life easier. And even though it did go through some kind of negative effect, by the end the negative obstacles were fixed and Great Britain was 50 years ahead of the rest of the world.

Many inventions were created to aid workers 12 hours a day and end up not producing

They seemed to be always cheerful and alert, taking pleasure in the light play of their muscle.” (document 8), as you can see children did not seem to mind the work, in fact, they seemed very happy and none of them were bruised or in pain from the work they were doing. “children are entirely fed, clothed, and educated by Mr. Dale. The others live with their parents in the village and have a weekly allowance for their work. The healthy appearance of these children has frequently attracted the attention of the traveler. Special regulations, adopted by Mr. Dale, have made this factory very different from the others in this kingdom. Out of the nearly 3000 children employed in the mills from 1785 to 1797, only fourteen have died.” (Document 10), people can never complain about how those children are being treated, they’re being fed, clothed, and educated and many if not all of these children are from poor families that most likely life in a small house with 15 other members of the family and the house is most likely filthy and filled with