The Great Famine was caused by a failure of the potato crop, which many people relied on for most of their nutrition. A disease called late blight destroyed the leaves and edible roots of the potato plants in successive years from 1845 to 1849.

Ireland before the Great Famine. The reasons for Catholic Irish peasants to emigrate in the decades after the War of 1812 were plentiful: religious intolerance, demeaning social gradations, political oppression and the like.

The immediate result of the mass starvation in Ireland in the late 1840s also known as the Great Famine in Ireland it caused mass death and emigration that dropped the population of Ireland by 25% and further strained relations of the Irish people with the British Crown and resulted in Irish Nationalism that can be …

-European middle class gained political power. What was the major cause of these changes in Europe? A new class of industrial engineers organized the land, labor, mineral resources, and capital of the nation, to maximize both production and profit.

What was the major cause of these changes in Europe? The Industrial Revolution is the major cause of changes in Europe because workers flocked there to find jobs in factories and Europeans wanted to find new markets to sell their goods. The Middle Class becomes wealthy because of the Industrial Revolution.

Many factors made Industrialization in America possible including the nation’s Natural Resources, the New Transportation Systems, Mechanization and the economic system of Free Enterprise and Laissez-Faire.

Industrialization began in 1877 and ended in 1900 the United States (U.S.). To have Industrialization, you must have these four things: natural resources, transportation, urbanization, and technology.

Industrialization- Machines were used to produce goods in factories. Urbanization- The growth of cities. People came to urban (city) areas to get jobs in factories. Bad working conditions- Workers in factories worked in dangerous conditions for long hours and low pay.

Perhaps the most harmful consequences of industrialization were those affecting families. Even when men stayed with their families, factory jobs were so difficult that they had little time to relax and enjoy family life. Women and Children Took on Dangerous Factory Work. Women also worked outside the home.

LONG TERM EFFECT: Workers won higher wages, shorter hours, & better conditions. Workers stilled overworked and underpaid. Overseers & skilled workers=lower middle class.

The industrial revolution brought about new manufacturing processes such as the assembly line, the rise of the factory system, the development of machine tools, iron production processes, chemical manufacturing and more (Johnson).

Industrialization has brought economic prosperity; additionally it has resulted in more population, urbanization, obvious stress on the basic life supporting systems while pushing the environmental impacts closer to the threshold limits of tolerance.

Life generally improved, but the industrial revolution also proved harmful. Pollution increased, working conditions were harmful, and capitalists employed women and young children, making them work long and hard hours. The first place where the Industrial Revolution started was in Britain.

Why was the Industrial Revolution seen as both a blessing and a curse? Blessing: More money for some people. Travel more, more jobs.

The Industrial Revolution was a blessing for the middle class because production, healthcare, and transportation improved. Industrialization improved the lives for all groups of people in Europe because of the advancement of technology.

Has rapid industrial development been a blessing or a curse for Americans? It is both a blessing and a curse. There were negatives such as over populated cities and the overpopulation cause diseased but the good was Industry also led to an expansion in markets and the national market and a rise of new industries.