I learned a lot from this chapter, I believe this chapter was the most interesting chapter to date. I learned about how the industrial revolution revolutionized many ways of European and American life through creating Urbanization where cities grew to larger sizes due to the farmers moving in to work in the textile factories. I learned how bad it was to be a child back during the Industrial Revolution. The children had to work 16 hour shifts, doing very dangerous things like being a feeder at a textile factory where accidents where very frequent. Another thing I learned is that Karl Marx, who wrote "The communist manifesto", believed that capitalism would fall onto itself. Marx believed that a more pure form of socialism would be better, Marx described communism as complete socialism where all the production was owned by the people.
There are a few things that I found interesting. I found it interesting that slavery in the British Empire abolished slavery in 1833, 32 years before slavery was abolished in the United States. I also found it interesting how many different inventions shaped the industrial revolution and made production of goods easier, cheaper, and faster.
One question I still have is why hasn't anyone found an -ism that will stop corruption?
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