Brief summary
Child labor. Is it all too much??
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The treatment of children in factories is often cruel and unusual. The children would be beaten and punished when they did not do a job according to the standards. The youngest children, were sent to help to more advanced kids working. The people the children worked for did not take the safety of them into consideration at all. Abuse in many different ways was very common in this time period. Verbal abuse and being beaten would occur daily. "Weighted" was a punishment for children who were late to work. Children would have a weight tied around their neck and walk around the factory aisles. Children could get serious back or neck injuries from weighting. Children were not allowed to be late, even by a few minutes.
Cited: http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html
During this time period people strongly wanted to use child labor to their advantage. People who owned factories loved child labor, and they supported their reasoning with ideas that it was good to build the children's working skills at a young age. Parents of the children who worked also were forced to allow the kids to work because they needed more income to obtain their homes, and to feed their families. Some parents fought for the rights to not make their children work, however; did not succeeded. Children could be as young as six years old to work in the factories, and sometimes worked nineteen hours a day. Children were allowed a break of one hour total. Not only did they work for long hours, but also with extreme conditions, heavy, large and dangerous equipment. It was common for children to be hurt badly, or even die on the job.
Cited: http://www.eiu.edu/eiutps/childhood.php
Cited: http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html
During this time period people strongly wanted to use child labor to their advantage. People who owned factories loved child labor, and they supported their reasoning with ideas that it was good to build the children's working skills at a young age. Parents of the children who worked also were forced to allow the kids to work because they needed more income to obtain their homes, and to feed their families. Some parents fought for the rights to not make their children work, however; did not succeeded. Children could be as young as six years old to work in the factories, and sometimes worked nineteen hours a day. Children were allowed a break of one hour total. Not only did they work for long hours, but also with extreme conditions, heavy, large and dangerous equipment. It was common for children to be hurt badly, or even die on the job.
Cited: http://www.eiu.edu/eiutps/childhood.php
Immigrants
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Immigrants, as well as manufacturing businesses , were focused in the fast growing cities of the Northeast and Midwest during the age of Industrial Revolution. In 1900, about 3/25 of the populations of many large cities were composed of immigrants and their children, like Chicago, Boston, New York, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Detroit . Immigration and the Industrialization Revolution were correlated.
Cited: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760060/
Americans often had a xenophobic attitude towards those who immigrated. The attitude of a young girl towards her fiancée could be changed because her friends did not respect him. A Chinese man who worked to open his own business could be chased out of town and lost all his money. Americans were hostile towards the inferior races who they felt were invading their land and trying to take over.
Cited: http://voices.yahoo.com/immigrants-american-industrial-revolution-1783423.html?cat=37
Cited: http://scsu-eng486.wetpaint.com/page/Immigration+During+America's+Industrial+Revolution
Cited: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760060/
Americans often had a xenophobic attitude towards those who immigrated. The attitude of a young girl towards her fiancée could be changed because her friends did not respect him. A Chinese man who worked to open his own business could be chased out of town and lost all his money. Americans were hostile towards the inferior races who they felt were invading their land and trying to take over.
Cited: http://voices.yahoo.com/immigrants-american-industrial-revolution-1783423.html?cat=37
Cited: http://scsu-eng486.wetpaint.com/page/Immigration+During+America's+Industrial+Revolution
African-americans
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The majority of African Americans lived in the south, so they didn't have any possibilities to escape their unfortunate situations. Most blacks often were sharecroppers. During this period, some men, women and young adults began to leave the south and travel northward; this migration led to the largest internal migration in US history.
The Great Migration of 1910-1930 was a big migrations that millions of African Americans from southern states went to northern cities such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, New York, and Detroit. Unfortunately, the new life brought misery filled with great difficulty, and they encountered conflicts with racism, white ethnic tensions and poverty.
Cited: http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/africanamerican/8.html
The Great Migration of 1910-1930 was a big migrations that millions of African Americans from southern states went to northern cities such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, New York, and Detroit. Unfortunately, the new life brought misery filled with great difficulty, and they encountered conflicts with racism, white ethnic tensions and poverty.
Cited: http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/africanamerican/8.html
The African American influence on the Industrial Revolution in the Catoctin Mountains was in the form of labor. Free and runaway blacks and slaves in the area worked as laborers in the many realms of iron making. They worked as woodcutters, cutting, hauling and stacking the wood for the collier. They also transported charcoal to the furnace, packed and fired the furnace, and worked in the molding shed with the molten iron. There is also evidence that prominent families in the area also had slaves and/or servants assisting with household chores and tasks.
Cited: http://www.nps.gov/cato/historyculture/africanamericans.htm
Cited: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web04/index.html
Cited: http://www.nps.gov/cato/historyculture/africanamericans.htm
Cited: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web04/index.html
Women Or slaves?
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Women during the industrial revalution had job at places like textile factories, domestic service and work shops. Some women also worked in cole mines. This time period was a time for women to have indepentent jobs, and wages. Women could not get a very good eduacation beacuse of their jobs. Conditions of the job were not that sanitary. Women had the role of working, domestic chores, and child care, for some this was a big weight on their shoulders. Families became dependent on wages of children and women.
Cited: http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html
The Industrial Revolution grew due to the economic times that needed many women, single and married, to find average-pay jobs outside their home. Women mostly found jobs in domestic houses, textile factories, and work shops. They also worked in the coal mines. For some, the Industrial Revolution provided independent wages, mobility and a better standard of living. For the majority, however, factory work in the early years of the 19th century resulted in a life of hardship and pain.
Cited: http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html
Cited: http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html
The Industrial Revolution grew due to the economic times that needed many women, single and married, to find average-pay jobs outside their home. Women mostly found jobs in domestic houses, textile factories, and work shops. They also worked in the coal mines. For some, the Industrial Revolution provided independent wages, mobility and a better standard of living. For the majority, however, factory work in the early years of the 19th century resulted in a life of hardship and pain.
Cited: http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html