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Industrial Revolution - Online Essay

Industrial Revolution

Jonathan Waldrop
HIS 122 - T & TR 2:30PM
September 19, 2012

Assignment #1

"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government." (George Will)

There is no doubt that the Industrial Revolution was a major change in world history and technology. I chose this quote by George Hill because I believe it strongly supports my view on the Industrial Revolution as a whole. In 1750 mostly everyone in Europe was living on small farms and had to make their own goods. About a century later people lived in cities in Great Britain and were using complex machines ...

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sold stock and this helped business grow to corporations. Urbanization also fueled the Industrial Revolution because people moved to towns and cities to be closer to the factories. George Will's quote was meaningful in the sense that he is saying to look around at all the buildings and factories in the city and how money and factories were driving the economy. He is also saying that he honors Jefferson's view on wanting to stay an agrarian society with not very many cities, but he is stating that it's not possible to move forward with life without living and pursuing an Industrial Revolution. I support George Will's quote for a few different reasons. I strongly believe that the Industrial Revolution was bound to happen whether people tried to prevent it or not. I think that everyone was just tired of the same old life and everything that came along with the daily struggles of working hard, but still not making enough money to support their family. The Industrial Revolution ...

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