Dbq Industrialization In America

Although the United States of America has progressed because of this revolution, it also affected many people in the most negative way possible. These three reasons have affected families’ ancestors for centuries, and America. While considering there were many helpful, positive effects to industrialization, sadly, in the end, the negative reasons out-weighs the positive. With that, while some might argue that Industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because of the advancements in technology, it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were little to no education, poor, horrible working conditions, and over polluting the air. The first reason is there was little to no education,

In the 1800’s, a girl named Elizabeth Bentley testified before a parliamentary committee investigating conditions among child laborers in Britain’s textile industry. One of the questions stated: “What time did you begin work at the factory?” Elizabeth responded with this: “When I was six years old” (Document 7). This affected her education in years to come. Her health and well-being was affected as well, in which, by the end of her work, she lived in a poorhouse. Many children these days aren’t able to have jobs because of Child Labor Laws which allow the forbidding of the employment of children and young teenagers, except at certain carefully specified jobs. Now Elizabeth had worked from the age of six, creating major gaps in her learning. Now, children have the opportunity to gain an education at the cost to nothing, until college. This is something to be taken advantage of. One of the last reasons is “The living conditions were very terrible. It was overcrowded and dirty; many people lived in small apartments with very little space.”(Document 6). Some may ask what this has to do with the kind of education that the

In the poem titled “My Boy”, the worried mother states that “before dawn, her labor drives her forth” (Document 7). This statement also goes back to the first reason. The mother in the poem had to get up early hours in the day, and work into terrible and unreasonable conditions into the night without seeing her sweet child. This had both an effect on the mother and the boy, as well. The mother was not able to take care of her son with the kind of working schedule that was planned out, and it would dim the connection between her and her son. With that, the son woke up to no mother, and with no one to really take care of him, creating terrible and unsafe atmospheres for both the Mother and son. Now, in these days, there are only certain amounts of time that someone can work. This allows many people to raise a family without vigorously working hard hours of the day and coming home to a child that the person hasn’t even bonded with, yet is their own. In the poem, raising awareness was crucial because it has allowed families today to stay close together and give the children a better environment to grow up in and has allowed them to have a role model in their life. To contribute to that, “Between 1908, and 1912, Lewis Hine worked as the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). During this time, he documented child labor in American industry in an effort to