4) How did the Industrial Revolution transform British society?
The Industrial Revolution transformed the British Society by "[destroying] their old ways of living and left them free to discover or make for themselves new ones"(Eric Hobsbawm, 746). Britain's political life welcomed people with technical skill without caring about what religion they believed in and encouraged their belief in observations, experiments, and precise experiments. And they had a ready supply of coal and iron ore. This all transformed British society to become the first industrial society.
12) What did humankind gain from the Industrial Revolution, and what did it lose?
Humankind gained knowledge of the outside world around them. Humankind gained scientific facts, rights, objects, and ideas. Some examples of what humankind gained were the different food and items that were traded around the world, pollution, illnesses, and medicine.
5) How did Britain's middle classes change during the 19th century?
Britain's middle classes increased during the 19th century because the majority of the population during this time were not aristocrats nor middle class. Young women and girls from laboring classes were married into industrial work or found jobs as domestic events for upper to middle-class families. Inside the homes, women started to earn money in their jobs and continued their domestic and child responsibilities. The lives of laboring classes were shaped primarily by the working conditions that the industrial era brought them.
I agree with your #4. Also being able to industrialize gave Britain the opportunity for huge amounts of natural resources that they could later use in factories that developed durning the Industrial Revolution. For #12, I believe that they also gained technological innovation and several new opportunities and they lost older ways of life.
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