WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Poor workers were often housed in cramped, grossly inadequate quarters. Working conditions were difficult and exposed employees to many risks and dangers, including cramped work areas with poor ventilation, trauma from machinery, toxic exposures to heavy metals, dust, and solvents.

Detailed explanation-2: -As many as 16 people were living in a single room and sharing a single privy. The lack of clean water and gutters overflowing with sewage from basement cesspits made workers and their families vulnerable to infectious diseases such as cholera.

Detailed explanation-3: -A rising problem that came from the Industrial Revolution was pollution. With all of the machinery improvements and the building of large factories, two different types of pollution (air and water pollution) arose. Many factories were meshed together and located on the edge of the rivers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Before the Industrial Revolution, most Americans lived on farms. The whole family worked together to make what they needed for daily life. They bartered (traded) for items they could not make themselves. A farmer may trade corn with the blacksmith for horse-shoes or nails.

Detailed explanation-5: -Crowded together in tenements, working-class families lived, worked, prayed, and socialized in the poorest sections of the rapidly expanding industrial cities. Workers needed to live close to the factories where they worked because they walked. Public transportation was much too expensive for most of them.