Projects of the Industrial Revolution

My group came up with my title by coming up with something catchy and that represented our information.
My exhibit describes the problems of child labor and the increase of use of children in factories. Pictures show working conditions of the children and also the affects of working long hours almost everyday. The sources that were used are all documents from the 1790's up to 1900's. Each document describes the life of a child from a letter or observations from an outside source. I hope that people learn about how hard it was for families to live during the industrial revolution. Families were so poor that they had to send their kids to work all day so that the family could receive more money.




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I learned that without steam engines transportation of goods would not be possible over long distances. Also, I learned that steam engines were a very important part of transportation and allowed trains to be possible.



I never knew that the spinning process was so inefficient, and that it took and large amount of time to use the wheel. I also thought that the loom was relatively unchanged and i never thought many people improved upon it.




I never knew how much slavery increased, looking at the graph you can see a large increase in slave populations. I also learned that there was a correlation between the number of slaves in America and the demand for cotton.