One of the most significant personality changes that has occurred in the world took
place during the 1700's to the early 1800's; the Industrial Revolution. It is described as a
time of drastic change from hand made items to machine made goods. This meant basically
that people had to learn how to manufacture goods in enormous factories instead of
The Industrial Revolution began in England because of their large demand for coal
and iron. And since they had a large supply of this, England soon began to have to
produce vast amounts across all of Europe. In the 1700's, England was one of the
world's leading producers of iron and coal and was considered as having the most colonial
power. This is all due to their newly acquired colonies.
The colonies currently known as the United States of America. The colonies
provided a market for manufactured products. The markets helped stimulate the textile
and iron industries in England. The colonies also gave England all of the resources that
were desperately needed due to produce all of the goods that were necessary
In most industries, before the Industrial Revolution, labor was done by hand. This
was called the cottage industry. In the early 1700's, there was great demand for cotton
cloth. In order to meet this demand people needed something to increase their output. So
the spinning jenny and the water frame were invented. These two inventions cut time and
expenses in half due to the lesser amount of labor that was needed.
These inventions also left a lot of people that were used to working the land
baffled. People were presented with a whole new scenario in life which changed their
outlooks on the way that they should go about living their lives. Kind of like how the
older generations of today are being perplexed by the hindrances of trying to figure out all
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