Industrial Revolution
From Man to Machine : By DeAnna Bolton
Living During The Industrial Revolution
As the industrial revolution begins people are just starting to make machines instead of using their very own hands to make stuff. That made people have to move from the country to the city. The city was very packed all the time so many people did not have a job. That is why there were a bunch of poor people. So the government made a law called The New Poor Laws. Where the poor people had to get separated from family and had to go to a workhouse and work with a bunch of other people. they would barley get served food and diseases were spreading all around in the workhouse. When that was happening the world was still looking bad anyway. Because people were polluting the air by candles and oil lamps. The water was getting polluted by toilet water going in their drinking water. the world really did look bad until they started to event stuff.
Eli Whitney
In 1794, U.S- born inventor Eli Whitney (1765- 1825) patented the cotton gin. this is a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton. By greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. By the mid -19th century, cotton had became Americas leading export.
Alexander Graham Bell
This Scottish - born American inventor whose foremost accomplishments was the invention of the telephone in 1876. This device really helped the world. By helping communicate from long distances. this truly did help the world because it is still around today but better.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was not the inventor of the electric light bulb. But he did produce the first commercially viable on. He made this machine on October 21,1879. This really has helped the world because he made light with out plugs so people so people can work in the light and not the dark for long periods of time.
Child Labor Laws
Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history. As industrialization moved workers from farms and home workshops into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred, because factory owners viewed them as more manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Growing opposition to child labor in the North caused many factories to move to the South. By 1900, states varied considerably in whether they had child labor standards and in their content and degree of enforcement. By then, American children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers.In the early decades of the twentieth century, the numbers of child laborers in the U.S. peaked. Child labor began to decline as the labor and reform movements grew and labor standards in general began improving, increasing the political power of working people and other social reformers to demand legislation regulating child labor. In 1899 and the National Child Labor Committee in 1904, which shared goals of challenging child labor, including through anti-sweatshop campaigns and labeling programs. The National Child Labor Committee’s work to end child labor was combined with efforts to provide free, compulsory education for all children, and culminated in the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, which set federal standards for child labor.
Kids after working
Assembly Line
My observation for the assembly line is that you are supposed to work as a team. Just do your job and keep going. So that it could go triple of the times than just working alone. It is all about teamwork if you just do your job it will go faster. And you will surly beat any company that decides to work alone.