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the technology and not share. Americans offered a large reward for anyone who could build a factory in this country. A brave man with a photographic memory took on the task. Samuel Slater memorized everything in the factory, quit his job, moved to London where he worked doing manual labor. He didn't tell anyone he used to work in the factory. He caught a ship to America and built the first factory on a stream in Rhode Island. It's interesting that as soon as an idea becomes reality, someone else has already thought of a way to improve it. In the 1800s there were so many ideas and improvements on those ideas, it was like a revolution--a big dramatic change in the way things were Most American history of this period is dominated by the events leading up to and those including the Civil War or by tales of the Wild West People are generally more likely to be familiar with names like Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, or Stonewall Jackson than they are names like Cyrus McCormick or John Fulton This is a testament to the varied nature of American events during the period 1850 to 1920 The Industrial Revolution is generally defined as a period of transition from the use of hand tools and handmade items to the mass production of goods by machine It is also viewed as a time of economic democratization since the mass production of goods made them cheaper and more readily available to the average person While this period created more prosperity it brought its own set of problems; the extensive use of child labor was initially unregulated, pollution increased, and the general pace of society shifted to one run by the time schedules of industry The Industrial Revolution had its roots in England with the introduction of John Kay's shuttle weaver, Watts' steam engine, Faraday's discovery of electrical current, and a host of inventions and modifications that began to move England away from its traditional cottage industry In America the invention of Whitney's cotton gin greatly increased the production of this southern commodity and gave the south a huge economic base The initial exploitation of workers in the new factories gave rise to the labor-union movement Though Watt is given credit for the first steam engine, Robert Fulton in America put it to work for the propulsion of boats, and eventually its use in the train system vastly expanded the ease of travel from east to west In the intellectual arena names such as Karl Marx (Das Kapital) and Charles Darwin (The Ascent of Man) will come to dominate the scientific and political world (both works were published in 1859) In the arts we see varied movements emerge, but he dominant one in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is that known as impressionism A new idealism emerged that was based on a growing capitalism within a new scientific framework; specifically the emerging philosophy that the free market functioned as a form of social darwinism wherein the fittest survived and thrived and the less fit fell by the wayside Social Darwinism was a new and powerful secular force in education The role of education was viewed as a means of providing all with the tools of survival within this environment of "survival of the fittest" the technology and not share.
Approximate Word count = 549
Approximate Pages = 2.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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