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Change Over Time
Narayanan, Sruthi
Period 3
February 3, 2009
Mr. Marshall
AP World History
Change Over Time: How did the Industrial Revolution between 1780 and 1914 in Great Britain and the rest of the world (U.S.A.,
European Nations, etc.) affect/change people and nations?
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__Change Over Time
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__All time periods shown
__Question answered thoroughly
__Supported by appropriate historical evidence
__Specific events mentioned
__Analyzed change
__Continuity
__Long Term Effect
__Connection
__Did not connect to 21st century
__Cause and effect shown
__Bibliography
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In the years before 1780, population in Europe had already begun to rise slowly and the demand for agriculture and resources
became more as well. Because of this increasing demand for agriculture and resources for the growing population, people needed new
innovations to make production and business more efficient. (Bulliet, 569) Europe had started to form relationships with the Americas
as well and all the trading and transatlantic commerce would eventually cause revolutions in many different countries including
France, and America. (Bulliet, 543) The time when all of these revolutions and innovations would come together and work as a system
is known as the Industrial Revolution. (Montagna, 1) From 1780 to 1914 the Industrial Revolution had a major impact on Britain, The
United States, France and many other countries around the world because of the new technologies that increased production rate and
income, such as the Cotton Gin, and as a result brought more people to different areas of the world causing social and political change
that eventually revolutionized the whole world ending with products such as Imperialism, Nationalism and eventually leading to
World War I. The Industrial Revolution started with the technology and innovations that were created in Europe during the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that improved their first target, the cotton and textile industries.
The 1780s brought new industrial changes due to the population increase and agricultural revolution that started everything.
(Armstrong, 208) This technology was only needed because of supply and demand. The population grew from 5.5 million in 1688 to 9
million in 1801. (Bulliet, 569) The population growth was due to more people migrating and that also caused religions such as
Christianity and Roman Catholicism to spread through Europe and other religions to move to the Americas and other countries around
the world that were involved in the Industrial Revolution. This population growth also led to the mentioned demand for resources and
so, for efficiency purposes, people decided that they needed new technology because of their advancing societies. The growth of the
technology was both influential on the people and on the society and economy as a whole. (Spodek, 517) The technologies that people
invented in order to expand production was not for the sole purpose of providing for the people in the society but, also to trade with
other countries and bring income into the country’s economy. (http://library.thinkquest.org/4132/info.htm) Prior to 1780, in the 1760s
people had already started to invent things to make the textile business more efficient. The spinning jenny was one of the earlier
inventions that was made in order to make the process of cotton weaving go faster. (Montagna, 2) During the early Industrial
Revolution the Cotton Gin was made by Eli Whitney and that made the process of processing cotton even faster. (Bulliet, 571) The
technologies such as the steamship and the steam engine that were also developed in the late eighteenth century, instead of making the
job of producing easier, made the transportation of good faster which led to better and more efficient trade systems in the early and
mid nineteenth century. (Spodek, 525) In the early nineteenth to the late nineteenth and even early twentieth centuries these
technological innovations would advance and slowly it would affect society more and more.
In the early nineteenth century the cotton industry boomed and that was when it started to involve the people in European
society more. The English workers were willing to work long hours and accept small wages working in factories and mines. These
were the people who had originally worked on farms and when “farming” was basically gone, they went to search for jobs in the
factories that had replaced them. (Andrea, 267) Since there was also high tech transportation for that day and age they were able to
form trade routes with places all over Europe and bring their innovations to America as well. (Spodek, 527) In 1864 intellectual
inventions like the camera were brought to places in America, and in Virginia a man named Matthew Brady was able to capture an
army scene. (Spodek, 527) These inventions, as a result of trade, influenced the lives of individuals all over the world and
revolutionized countries. Industrialization’s biggest social change was in regards to the family because now women, children became
part of the work force. This helped to split up many families because now everybody had to work. (Armstrong, 211) As a result of
people earning money and having a concern for the economy, social classes started to build as well. And, because of these social
classes, the crime rate increased. A middle class emerged and aristocrats were those who were rich in industry. (http://library
.thinkquest.org/4132/info.htm) Slowly into the mid and late nineteenth century more and more people started to enter into the industry
business and people realized that there were people who were richer than them and everybody wanted more money. (Armstrong, 212)
The economy was also doing well at the time because along with all the social change that came with the technological and
intellectual innovation, trade was improving more and more. (Bulliet, 570) During the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth
century was when the government also started to get involved because now there needed to be someone to manage these growing
economies.
New social classes were formed in the peak of the Industrial Revolution and so people got the opportunity to move up the
social ladder and control others, so developed the government. The government in Britain and the rest of Europe including, Germany
and France, thought that the Industrialization was not such a good thing and they tried to forcefully stop reform, but they failed and
learned to accept. (Spodek, 532) There were also several economic concepts developed during the Industrial Revolution in order to
control the economy. (Andrea, 272) Karl Marx proclaimed his capitalism claims in 1848 which were used as a base for the continuing
philosophies of socialism and communism all over the world. (Armstrong, 212) Such philosophies of how society should be run
involved the politicians and how they chose to run their countries. The Industrialization mainly brought on business and made the
economy something substantial for people, this was the effect of industrialization. (Spodek, 530) Following these philosophies was the
period of Enlightenment. The Period Of Enlightenment occurred in both Europe and the Americas and it spurred the development of
democracy. (Armstrong, 213) Slowly men were able to earn more money because the jobs became more substantial and women were
able to go back to working at home and keeping their place as keeper of the house. (Armstrong, 214) The Industrial Revolution not
only brought together the people within a nation but it also brought together the nations that were involved. Europe, because that was
where it originated, had an enormous influence on the Americas. (Spodek, 531) For example, labor organization was spread from
Europe to the Americas and it was very similar. The Industrialization brought together these nations and they learned from one
another. They influenced each other and this was only one of the results of Industrialization around the world, they developed
comfortable relations with each other as countries.
The Industrial Revolution lasted from when population started to grow in the 1760s to the start of the First World War in
1914. (Spodek, 525) The Industrial Revolution brought together countries through trade and relations. It made nations depend on each
other and it made then extremely influential making them all better nations in the long run. (Andrea, 273) Towards the end of the
Industrial Revolution, each country started to have their own revolution. (Bulliet, 553) There was the French Revolution, and the
American Revolution that all had something tied into the Industrial Revolution. (Bulliet, 549) The Industrial Revolution led to and
ended as the First World War which resulted from the new relations of all the nations. Because of the Industrial Revolutions nations
competed with each other for goods and markets, to supply their rising economies. This was how the nations strengthened as a whole
and became stronger, by resisting each other. (Spodek, 552) This led to Imperialism in the nineteenth century all over the world in
countries such as India, Japan, Africa and China. (Armstrong, 219) The Industrial Revolution was necessary to our world and it
brought together many nations and the societies in each of those nations developed causing social, economic, political and religious
change, which all ended with the World War in 1914, and the world’s nations only continued to advance from there on.
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