Early Modern World: Industrialization And The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment began with the English philosopher John Locke. It was an era of spreading faith in reason, in reason, and in universal rights and laws (The Enlightenment in Europe). The ideas that were embodied by Enlightenment were life, liberty, and property. It also led to the idea of natural right. The Enlightenment influenced the way people finally realized that divine right wasn’t right and start to doubt it. Throughout time Enlightenment has influenced many important events in history.

Time and time again people wonder if Industrialization had a greater negative or positive effect. Although Industrialization brought many good things for everyday lives, it also had negative effects. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because new job and job opportunities, it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were children not being educated due to child labor, long working hours, and unsafe working conditions.

The mid 1800s began what is now known as the Industrial Revolution. Business and cities boomed with life as thins seemed to be improving in life. But were they really changing for the better? The bright side of the Industrialization is shown, yet the dark side isn't. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because of urbanization, it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were little to no education, poor and/or unsafe working conditions, and pollution.

The Industrial Revolution brought about many positive things. During this time society benefitted from making more goods, cheaper labor and overall improved the economy. However, it also had a very negative effect on society. Industrialization’s negative effects were child labor, unequal pay, over populated and poor living conditions. These are the reasons why many people thought the Industrial Revolution was harmful. The worst of these things was child labor and the effect it had on families.

“The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.” During the 1850’s, the world had completely changed in many ways. Machines were being created to do much more work than humans ever could. These machines were also doing this work much more efficiently. And, most obvious of all these machines didn’t need to be paid wages. All of these reasons culminated into gargantuan change within the English country. Three dynamic elements were changed forever and they were; economic relationships. family relationships, and changes in thoughts primarily about education.

In the late 1800s, the Industrial Revolution was brought to the United States from Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution was a time period which brought people from the rural areas to the city. Most manufacturing took place in people’s homes using home-made tools, and basic machines. Henceforth, innovation was needed to speed the process of making clothes, enhancing the transportation system, better mass production of iron and more. On the other hand, child labor sprung up a big issue during that time. Children were underpaid, abused, had a very low education rate, but also had to work to support their family. Later, reformers and lawmakers tried to pass laws to stop, and help decrease the amount of child labor happening in their state, but that did not help much because as the inventors

The Enlightenment and Imperialism completely revolutionized how people look at the world and what they think of it. These two major events also help to bring to light to determine how free the world is today in terms of suppressed rights and liberties in assorted countries. The freedom of the world can also be determined by modern day resources such as Freedomhouse.org. The cycle of securing individual freedoms has been heavily impacted by the Enlightenment, Imperialization and the drafting of the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen.

children sometimes work up to 19 hours a day. Only giving them a one hour total break.” (Child Labor in Factories, 1). Many children who worked in the factories would not be able to read or write because they were deprived from their childhood and education.

The Enlightenment was a period of time that stressed the importance of reason and individual ideas. Many philosophers published works criticizing a country’s monarch or divulging the flaws they saw in a system within the government, such as the justice system. The Enlightenment also stressed the importance of education, and as a result of this, literacy rates experienced a major upward trend. Now able to read the philosopher’s works, a larger sum of people now were educated on the corruptions within their government. This caused a questioning of traditional practices, and people began to believe they could revise their government. These new ideas played as a catalyst to acts of resistance, or in a broader retrospect, the French Revolution.

Enlightenment was created by the English philosopher John Locke. The ideas that were influenced by enlightenment were life, liberty, and property. This also gave to the idea of natural right. Enlightenment influenced the way people finally realized that divine right wasn’t right and start to doubt it. Throughout time enlightenment has influenced a lot of important events in history.

The Enlightenment was a time period in which people began to embrace individuality and many Enlightenment thinkers arose. The Enlightenment was a movement that was highly based upon reason and logic. It occurred around the mid-1700’s and helped develop a new way of life.

The Industrial Revolution is thought to be a time of innovation and scientific discovery. Not many people stop to think of the cost that this innovative age reaped on the men, women, and children of the time. A child should not have to shoulder the responsibility of supporting his family, his parents, or himself/herself. That, however, was the way things were during this time period. Children didn’t go to school and they weren’t encouraged to attend school. It was a waste of time, time that could be spent earning a horribly low wage for such intensive work. Jobs were dangerous and unhygienic. The demand for children in the workplace was higher than ever. Thankfully child labor was eventually banned here in the United States, but it still continues

The Enlightenment thinkers used science and philosophical theories to express what they believed in and used the new thoughts to help them solve their problems. Many philosophers believed that the government had too much power over the people and they began to work to change that. For example, John Locke believed that people should have natural rights such as life, liberty, and property and that the government should not take away these rights and instead should protect them. If the government did not protect these rights the people could overthrow the government. This idea changed everything because in the end it influenced the English to use this idea in their Declaration of Independence to break away from Britain. Montesquieu was another philosopher who helped make the Enlightenment a turning point. He helped by

The periods of the Enlightenment and Romanticism have had a dramatic impact on humanity. Spawning a multitude of wonderful pieces of literature, numerous ideologies, revolutions, and countless discoveries. These two periods are without doubt, a key component of the human identity. These ideas influenced several key movements around the globe, and are still playing a role in the lives of people today. With the Enlightenment came ideas like the Scientific Theory, critical thinking, a resurgence of old or long lost knowledge, and a period that showed the power of man over his environment. It was an ideology that dictated order, scientific progress, and reason. Romanticism on the other hand, was the exact opposite of the enlightened period. Rather

Both, the enlightenment and industrial time period offer their differences and similarities to each other. The change represents if humanity has advanced or reverted to their old ways, through the use of education. During the Enlightenment period Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote a book called, ‘Émile,’ a bildungsroman following a man from infancy to adulthood. In many of Rousseau’s writing it is shown that he views children as the perfect humans as they have been untainted by the world and could be easily taught the wrongs and rights through education. Rousseau also believes that the goodness of a child can be maintained through their upbringing, which could contribute to them not being corrupted by modern society. As one quote states, ‘nature wants