Evidence of Experiencing Industrialization

The first reading was horrible in the way that the business owner treated their fellow man in a way I see that people were enslaved in working as well. The Testimony, by Elizabeth Bentley shows that she had to wake up early everyday and left to go home extremely late. The people during this time did not have a lot of time for sleeping. In a sense when the feudal system went down the rich still kipped their power by having the peasants do the cheap work. In my opinion the world did not progress for the poor it was the same or maybe worst. I cannot imagine little kids working in industrial setting at the age of six she was suppose to be in school during this time not working. I was also proud of Ms. Bentley because she was self-taught and wrote many primary sources of the Industrial Revolution. Another, very interesting document that I read about was that of Karl Marx, which was the father of communism I have to say that I didn't know that this person created communism. I always thought that communism was a thing that the Russians started. The thing that  me the most was that he was from a wealthy family. I think that any time that I see communism I immediately say this is a bad idea. The things that were happing during this time period caused somebody to make all these ideas because nobody was protecting them. The one things that I really liked in The communist Manifesto in number ten of his reform that all children should get free education. Now I know why Republicans say free education is a communist believe because Marx states it in his work. The other thing that I also noticed was that Marx had a helper in developing this thing Friedrich Engels was helping him write this. Mr. Engels should receive some created for his master piece not just Marx.

Industrial Revolution

I have to say that I have become a sort of specialist when it comes to the topic of the Industrial Revolution because I have read the chapter three times. When it comes to presentation, I am a very shy person. The Industrial Revolution started in the UK because at the time it was the power of the European country. One of the greatest things of the Industrial Revolution is that in some sense it connects with us because it has the theory that things can be made better everyday. The revolution also had a couple of down sides to it, phrasing it nicely, the working conditions were horrible. They used little kids it get in the middle of machines and get things out of machines that were stuck. It was not a good idea to be a child during this time, especially one from a low income family because they had to provide for their family. furthermore children's death rate was so high because they would work in factories.The industrial revolution started the separation of social classes that is still alive and well today. The book inefficiencies the change but i really do not see the difference it just made easier for people with money to become aristocrats. I found it interesting why in the United States of America communism never took form and it was because unions never got heavily involved in politics. If not they believe the same thing would of happened in the USA as it happened in mother Russia. This was because the working conditions were horrible, I always think about people in the future what are they going to say of our era when they read it in the text book. Because I always ask the question, I cannot believe we made it this far. The industrial revolution started the man era, but it has also started the extinction of mother earth.              

Echos of Revolution section

I really enjoyed this chapter because it mostly reflects on the abolish of slavery, which was inspired by the enlightenment period. I think that the abolish of slavery was successful mainly because people had a better understanding of the bible, and understood that slavery was bad. Also, with the new creation of of personal liberty and freedom and equality for every one but not slaves. I was surprise to read that one sailor was still bringing slaves, but the UK did not want them anymore that really filled me with joy. The only sad part of this reading was that the abolitionist movement did not start in the US, which would of been better. The movement was greater in the UK then it spread out to the rest of the world. Latin America abolished slavery in 1850's the first country to abolish slavery was in the UK in 1834. The last country to abolish slavery was Brazil, I do not know how Brazil was the last, I would of thought that Russia was going to be last, but the abolish slavery in 1861 very close to the US. At the same time that this was happening many countries started to unite. The creator or starter of this movement was the United States of America with the American Revolution in 1776 with the birth of our country more people started to unite. For example, in 1870 Italy became its own country and in 1871 Germany became a country as well. This creation of nations, in my perspective, was the greatest thing that Europe can do and in a way over sees the future of the great European empire to come.The final revolution that the Atlantic brought was the greatest the Woman's Movement. It all started in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote a constitution. Stanton in my opinion has to be the mother of all Woman's rights movement, which in created a other movements in the UK and France. I believe that even today women are not treated well the Woman's Right movement is still underway, and I hope one day it will be accomplished.