How did it all start?
It all started with the Agricultural Revolution. Before the Agricultural Revolution everything was done by hand. The women would make the clothes, cook the food, etc. The men would work their trade. Most men were farmers.
In those days there where only 2 classes the upper class and the lower class. The upper class consisted mostly of land owners, nobles, merchants, and men that were political leaders or high ranking officers. The lower class contained farmers, peasants, servants, etc.
The upper class owned all the land that the farmers worked on, so when the upper class started taking back the land, the farmers either had to earn their living in another way or make do with less land. The farmers who stayed, began to invent things to make work easier and get more food from the land. Some of these inventions were, the plow & moldboard, seed drills, machines that harvest - sickles, reapers, & harvesters. At this time people were also inventing things to make womens work easier like the spining jenny and the cotton gin. those who where not farmers and didn't have a job moved to the citys and worked in factorys.
In those days there where only 2 classes the upper class and the lower class. The upper class consisted mostly of land owners, nobles, merchants, and men that were political leaders or high ranking officers. The lower class contained farmers, peasants, servants, etc.
The upper class owned all the land that the farmers worked on, so when the upper class started taking back the land, the farmers either had to earn their living in another way or make do with less land. The farmers who stayed, began to invent things to make work easier and get more food from the land. Some of these inventions were, the plow & moldboard, seed drills, machines that harvest - sickles, reapers, & harvesters. At this time people were also inventing things to make womens work easier like the spining jenny and the cotton gin. those who where not farmers and didn't have a job moved to the citys and worked in factorys.
When did the industrial revolution end?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the Industrial Revolution never officially ended. but, the main changes- the transformation from a mostly agricultural community to an industrial one ended in the 1800s. Now we are in a technology revolution.
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