Industrial Revolution Dbq Essay

The Industrial Revolution was overall a negative thing because if forced childhood labor, caused the environment to fail, and it brought many negative effects onto the people.
The Industrial Revolution brought a big change upon the society, one example is childhood labor. Children were forced to work and were often severely injured because of the factory work they were assigned to do. In Document 10 it speaks about how severe these injures can get. Children’s fingers were often severely injured and in most instances cut off due to the factory machinery. Their arms were often caught in the machines and stripped all the way down to the bone and some were so severe that they had to amputate a limb. Children had to work to provide for their families

With all the manufacturing of goods and all the gases created, pollution was released into the air. With all of this unhealthy polluted air, it began to decay the trees and really bring down the environment. In Document 12 James Nasmyth talks about how rather than seeing something beautiful, he saw the burning coals and steam slowly decay the trees. He says “We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price in the loss of nature and beauty.” This really goes to show how bad these factories were for the environment and how it also took a toll on the people. When there were just farm working and hand made goods everyone got to enjoy the natural beauty surrounding them. When the factories were introduced and all the beautiful pastures were messed up because of factory building many people couldn’t find that natural beauty that they once had. In Document 13 it speaks a little about what all the smoke did to the skies of London. They described London as one big black cloud. The government should have taken a more natural or nature friendly

Because of the environment and smoke produced the skies were often hidden and there was no natural sunlight coming into the city to make people happy. In Document 13 it really goes into depth about how the civilians really felt and how bad their moods were. It says that whenever the skies were dark many people didn’t even care about their well-being and the sadness in that city was unexplainable. Many people often felt hatred, despair, and anger towards their loved ones. Some people were so depressed and sick of everything that they would end their lives. That is such a huge statement on how bad this change was to the people. All they did all day was work and stare up into a black sky that there became a time where nothing was worth it anymore. There was poverty and nobody even cared about those who were hurt or starving. This document gave an example that an Englishman is in such a bad mood because of the climate that he behaves like a brute beast and doesn’t care about anyone or anything. If you just so happen to be walking by this man and he knocks you over or shoves you he will not give an apology because he simply does not care. If he sees an old man in need of food and starving he will walk right passed him and not help. This goes to show how bad the people’s attitudes and feelings were, all because of a change in the economic