Industrial Revolution and Imperalism before 1900

Discuss the positive and negative effects of the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution and Imperialism by the beginning of the 20th century.

Industrial Revolution
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Postive

• Greater standard of living
• Family could live on one wage earner
• Non-married women and widows could find jobs outside the home
• Increase trade
• Demand for iron, steel, coal, and lumber
• Expand markets and territories
• Textile industry brought clothing for all
•  Steam Engine
• Help extract coal
• Move steamboats
• Railroads
• Faster Transportation
• Canals were built to link the major rivers with manufacturing and agricultural markets
• Railroads - faster, covering long distance
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• Communication
• Telegraph
• Railroads
• Working class
• Rise of trade unions, democratic political parties, and socialism

Negative

• Pollution
• Urban slums
• More powerful war weapons
• Laborers in unsafe factories
• Loss of craftsmanship ownership - now people work on only part of a product
• Marxism, Communism
• Too much power in too few hands - Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, JP Morgan, Carnegie

Imperialism
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Positive

• Almost nothing
• Education in India
• US got -Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
• Panama Canal
• Missionaries wanting to eradicate slavery in East Africa, bring medicine and education
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 Negative

•  China, India, Middle East and Africa were overwhelmed by European economic and military power. Latin America too.
• Take raw materials and natural resources from subjugated country 
• Mining - copper, silver, gold, coal
•  Conviction of racial superiority
• Loss of self-sufficiency  agriculture
• Dependency theory in Latin America
• Push manufactured goods onto subjugated countries while not developing any internal manufacturing and infrastructure
• Expand land grab for raising export crops
• Foreign powers used their political and military influence to protect their economic interests
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