The Industrial Revolution, (AKA the First Industrial Revolution) was a period of development and transition to new manufacturing processes, more specifically a change from an agrarian and workmanship economy to one almost entirely consisting of industry and machine manufacturing. With the boom of new infrastructure and factories erected from the ground up was the beginning of a new era of job opportunities. A plethora of new job opportunities was created with the construction of new factories and relocations into the city. Urbanization was the movement of people from villages and towns to cities. This sudden influx of population growth led to unhygienic living conditions in overcrowded cities which allowed the disease to spread to become rampant. The job opportunities that attracted working-class people were almost always dangerous and paid low wages. Children, in particular, were hired for their small size and ability to navigate the factories.
It involved children suffering from abusive conditions. Whether or not it was in factories, mines, or other workplaces, they were expected to work in hot and dangerous conditions for only low amount of pay and long hours.
The great depression, poverty and unemployment was on the rise, the stock market crash. Hitler’s takeover of the German government in 1933 forced many “expatriates” not only to return to the United States but to become politically engaged in their home country.
When Africans were brought to America to be sold as slaves, they brought food from their home continent with them. These foods became incorporated in what would become known as Southern food.
