Dbq Industrialization

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Industrialization is the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. They are many advantages that we have gotten from industrialization; there are also tons of disadvantages that we get from industrialization. However the benefits from industrialization outweigh the costs of it. Without industrialization we would not have everything we have today.
The benefits of industrialization progressed the United States more than it would’ve if we didn't do it. One of the biggest inventions of that time, the steam engine, led us to over 60% of all new inventions based on livescience.com. This proves that without industrialization there would be no computers, cars, assembly lines, you name it. Almost everything is made from power,
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Child labor and pollution are two of the biggest bad things we gout out of industrialization. Based off of document C, John Birley states that he was once beaten until the person beating him scared himself. Another document by Dr. Michael Ward claims from 1st person experience when he would go to the factories to bring people back to good health he could not go 10 minutes without gasping for breath. He also claims he saw in many instances where the muscles and skin had been stripped down to bone from being beaten. He also approximated the ratio of all the kids that worked and said about one half of them were hurt or abused. Although we came out much better because of industrialization, there will still many flaws in order to get things how they …show more content…
We got the steam engine, railroads, different theories that lead to medicine and stuff to keep you healthy. We got electricity, plumbing, women’s rights, public education, and organized sports. You do have child labor, pollution, and machines taking people's jobs but these inventions create new job paths for these people to pursue. Instead of doing what the machine does they could fix the machine when it breaks. All in all, we benefited more from industrialization than fell back. As long as we are taking steps forward and not back then we will keep inventing new stuff to take care of our problems and progressing as a