History- 100%
Here's a short essay I once wrote for a college history class (score: 10/10) Thankfully I had watched a bit of the drama "North and South" before writing the essay, which complemented the chapter material very well, and helped me to score 100% on both my short-answer essay, and on the history test that accompanied the essay.
The market revolution brought changes in how people lived and thought. What were these changes and what was the response religiously, intellectually, socially, and in family life? Was there an essential quality promoted in each of these areas? Explain. - 200 words or more
The Industrial Revolution- or “market revolution” brought on many changes to the economy and lifestyles of people all across the world, particularly on the east coast of the United States of America and throughout England, where many of the major new industries of the time were centered. Transportation was more available and could take people to more places- such as by train. This brought a revolution in the speed and distance of people’s lives. Suddenly it was more possible for people to live in faraway places, or for people to send things quickly by mail. The world became more interconnected. Rural life changed, and city life became of greater focus in the late nineteenth century. Thanks to British technology and American Industrialization, people could buy factory-made products created in mass quantities and sold at inexpensive prices to consumers. This helped to create a new middle class- this was an essential quality about the new market that was promoted by manufacturers. A downside of this was that people changed from artisans to factory workers. No more was the focus on product quality, but instead on quantity and mass appeal.
The new industrial life changed Britain and the United States’ social fabric. At a time when people could live like kings on a small budget, many were playing the part of paupers. The less fortunate spent time working in factories which often meant very dangerous working conditions, low pay, long hours, and terrible housing, in which many families could be crammed together. However, while in retrospect we may observe that factory workers lived what we would call terrible lives, to them the work could be life-saving. During the Industrial Revolution, there was a large amount of emigrants migrating into the United States. These emigrants, who were often from poor countries and who had often barely been able to afford the fare it took to come to America, could support themselves thanks to factories and small housing. Anything was better than starving, even if it disenchanted those who had thought America’s streets were paved with gold, and opportunity to become rich was abundant.
The Industrial Revolution also affected religion. People were interested in finding how religion could assist them in the new environment created by the changing market. Attitudes also shifted- due to the great amount of change, people often found themselves drifting into sentimentalism, which “sprang from nostalgia for the imagined trust and security of the familiar face-to-face life of the prenuptial village”, and transcendentalism, which “encouraged men to a new self-reliance”. Even relationships changed. Many attitudes and traditions began to seem “old-fashioned” and out of line with the “new” way the world ran. Courting procedures would slowly fall away. Life became less about the community, and more about the individual. Pollution, as well child labor and maltreatment of child workers was another problem that surfaced during the Industrial Revolution. The nineteenth century became less about one’s forefathers, and more about the future. The thing that was on the people’s minds was: what would that future be?
The market revolution brought changes in how people lived and thought. What were these changes and what was the response religiously, intellectually, socially, and in family life? Was there an essential quality promoted in each of these areas? Explain. - 200 words or more
The Industrial Revolution- or “market revolution” brought on many changes to the economy and lifestyles of people all across the world, particularly on the east coast of the United States of America and throughout England, where many of the major new industries of the time were centered. Transportation was more available and could take people to more places- such as by train. This brought a revolution in the speed and distance of people’s lives. Suddenly it was more possible for people to live in faraway places, or for people to send things quickly by mail. The world became more interconnected. Rural life changed, and city life became of greater focus in the late nineteenth century. Thanks to British technology and American Industrialization, people could buy factory-made products created in mass quantities and sold at inexpensive prices to consumers. This helped to create a new middle class- this was an essential quality about the new market that was promoted by manufacturers. A downside of this was that people changed from artisans to factory workers. No more was the focus on product quality, but instead on quantity and mass appeal.
The new industrial life changed Britain and the United States’ social fabric. At a time when people could live like kings on a small budget, many were playing the part of paupers. The less fortunate spent time working in factories which often meant very dangerous working conditions, low pay, long hours, and terrible housing, in which many families could be crammed together. However, while in retrospect we may observe that factory workers lived what we would call terrible lives, to them the work could be life-saving. During the Industrial Revolution, there was a large amount of emigrants migrating into the United States. These emigrants, who were often from poor countries and who had often barely been able to afford the fare it took to come to America, could support themselves thanks to factories and small housing. Anything was better than starving, even if it disenchanted those who had thought America’s streets were paved with gold, and opportunity to become rich was abundant.
The Industrial Revolution also affected religion. People were interested in finding how religion could assist them in the new environment created by the changing market. Attitudes also shifted- due to the great amount of change, people often found themselves drifting into sentimentalism, which “sprang from nostalgia for the imagined trust and security of the familiar face-to-face life of the prenuptial village”, and transcendentalism, which “encouraged men to a new self-reliance”. Even relationships changed. Many attitudes and traditions began to seem “old-fashioned” and out of line with the “new” way the world ran. Courting procedures would slowly fall away. Life became less about the community, and more about the individual. Pollution, as well child labor and maltreatment of child workers was another problem that surfaced during the Industrial Revolution. The nineteenth century became less about one’s forefathers, and more about the future. The thing that was on the people’s minds was: what would that future be?