Industrial Revolution Dbq Research Paper

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The Industrial Revolution was an age where the shift from human and animal to machine changed how people lived. The revolution gave away to new technology that would later influenced the 21st century. The Industrial Revolution was not all fun and game. The industrial revolution has bad side effect that still affect the world to this day. Many problems of society can be traced back to the days of the Industrial revolution. The Industrial revolution made worker lives harder through the incidence of work-related deaths/injury,poor living condition and poor health.
Workers experienced many incidence of work-related deaths/injury during Industrial Revolution. In document C, a data table is shown comparing average death rates in rural and industrialized …show more content…

Although, the industrial revolution brought in new jobs, workers’ salary did not benefit from the industrial revolution.In Document V, a image is shown of multiples families living in the same room. This single disty one room place is called a slum. Slums are thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people. Document O goes further into the problems many workers faced other than their house problem. As stated, “ Most workers lack clothing,bed..wholesome food--even potatoes”(Document O). The worker are so poor they are forced to go hungry then can’t even afford to eat a potato. If that was not bad enough, the streets in the cities are overcrowded. As stated, “ ...multitude crowded together in narrow streets”(Document Q). Workers had to not only suffer in poor housing ,but get little food and live in overcrowded areas. These effects still go on to this day. Many poor people in cities still live in slum which show the effect of industrial revolution in modern century.
Unfortunately, the effect of the Industrial Revolution also went to affect overall health. In Document U, a image is shown of a factory releasing smog. Smog is a pollution in the air that causes breathing problems. In Document Q,” hoses...blackened with smoke”. Houses were extremely dirty which meant people lived in pretty much dirt. This spread disease making many sick. In Document O,“...every breath

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