From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage’(Effects).” Meanwhile ,cotton plantations in the southern united states needed to keep up with the demand for raw materials from british cloth factories. By the time the 20th century rolled around, the industrial revolution had changed Europe and the US from farming societies to industrial societies. Of course, burning all that coal and oil, there was quite a bit of pollution. According to Effects of the Industrial Revolution, “ the quality of life decreased a great deal in the first 60 years of the Industrial Revolution...For skilled workers, quality of life took a sharp downturn: ‘A quarter [neighborhood] once remarkable for its neatness and order; I remembered their whitewashed houses, and their little flower gardens, and the decent appearance they made with their families at markets, or at public worship. These houses were now a mass of filth and misery’(Effects).” In addition, social conditions didn’t always get better, and in many cases they got worse. For instance, instead of going to school, children were expected to work more than ever, and for