Industrial Revolution Dbq Analysis

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The Industrial Revolution had positive and negative issues/ events but most were negative assumptions.During the Industrial Revolution, ways of living progressed. Some progression was fair for others, some people not really. The Industrial Revolution changed how factory owners and workers do the job today. The revolution had pros and cons. Most were cons because, industrialization had begun. The Industrial Revolution was a terrible time for women and children. For example, in document ten, the image shows an overweight man in a carriage, being pulled by young adolescents. This shows how factory owners treated the workers. Another example is located in document six. Which states how upper class citizens would treat the lower class when times would get hard. Most factory workers were women and children, which was unfair. In the Revolution factories had bad accidents. In factories, workers would often get hurt working. There were several cases of lung disease/ cancer. For example, in …show more content…

For example in document eight there is a passage written by Leon Faucher. The passage reads how Mr. T Ashton would employ one thousand five hundred women to work for him. He would decently cloth the younger women. He would give them a place to stay and make their rent seventy-five cents per week. He made so everyone would be clean and showed confort. Another example is in document nine. This image shows women in a sowing department working hard but also happy that they are doing their job. The picture in document twelve is considered positive, because a wealthy, nice looking man is standing in front of a beautiful car, this is what factory owners want the world to see. The reasoning for this is owners want people to buy the car so others in the world can feel the way he does. The positives of the industrial revolution impacted the way people live there life

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