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The paving acts allowed more efficient drainage and mending of roads, and helping to keep local trade flowing. Regular street cleaning was implemented to ensure a clear passageway for traffic, while hazardous shop signs hanging overhead were ordered to be removed.
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The invention of the practical steam engine by James Watt impacted the Industrial Revolution by making factory work and transportation easier
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Young children were forced to work in factories and mines to support their families
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The Industrial Revolution was a time of major change to how work was done. It was a turn to manufacturing processes and less of a focus on agriculture
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In the late 18th century and early 19th century there was a large increase in population due to new food crops, the creation of cities, and healthier lifestyles
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The French People lead an uprising against the monarchy, and established The French Republic. Other countries waged war on France to prevent revolutionary ideas from spreading.
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Romanticism was a movement in literature and arts focusing on inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual
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The invention of the Cotton Gin made production of cotton much faster but also had negative effects like an increase to slavery
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France had to return most of its art and give gained land to Switzerland and the Dutch.
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Citizens began to have an increase of pride in their country and cultural identity. This lead to many new nations forming.
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The Factory Act was passed to limit the age and hours a children can work in workplaces
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This law reduced the cost of looking after the poor. Under this law, parishes were grouped into unions, and each union had to build a workhouse if they did not have one
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The decline of death rates was one of the factors to the population boom and was caused by the increase of sanitation and new discoveries in health sciences
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Realism came after Romanticism and people began to focus on accepting a situation as it is and to deal with it accordingly. In the arts it was also known as Naturalism and it was more of a focus on truth and how things really are
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The idea that women took care of the home while the husband was the primary wage earner
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It included the demolition of medieval neighborhoods that were too overcrowded and unhealthy by officials at the time. It included the building of wide avenues and new parks and squares.
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At the end of the Industrial Revolution, working conditions began to improve
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Karl Marx’s book lead to the socialist and communist parties gaining increased support.
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This modernized ways of transportation and replaced horse drawn buggies. It also allowed a larger seating capacity and became the best way of transportation.
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By the year 1900, family and home became the foundation of life
