Industrial Revolution: Ch. 11 Review

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Ch.11 Review Industrial Revolution Industrial Revolution is a series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of maufacturing goods and it started in Europe in the late 1700's and was a cause of population growth between 1750 and 1950. The development of factories was due to the steam engine, patented in 1769 by James Watt. The iron industry was first to increase production through extensive use of Watt's steam engine. Coal was the next product that benefited the iron and steel manufacturing required energy to operate the blast furnaces and steam engines and coal was the answer for this. The new engineering profession made its biggest impact on transportation especially canals and rail ways. Transportation inventions…show more content…
The Belgians led the way in new coal-mining techniques the French had the first coal-fired blast furnace for making iron , and the Germans made the first industrial cotton mill. However, the Industrial Revolution did not make a significant impact elsewhere in Europe until the late 1800's. The Industrial revolution reached Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Sweden in the late 1800's. However their industrial development did not match the level of Belgium, France and Germany until the late twentieth century. Other Southern and Eastern European countries joined the industrial revolution in the twentieth century. Industry arrived a bit later in the United States than in Western European countries such as France and Belgium but it grew faster. The first U.S. Textile mill was built in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1791, by Samuel Slater, a former worker at Arkwright's factory in England. The textile industry grew rapidly from 8,000 spindles in 18008 to 31,000 in 1809, and 80,000 in 1811. The United states became a major industrial nation by 1860. However except for textiles, leading U.S. Industries did not widely use the industrial processes. Industries such as iron and steel did not apply new manufacturing techniques on a large scale in the U.S. Until the final third of the nineteenth century. Industry had diffused to other parts of the world during the twentieth century, including, Japan ,…show more content…
The region comprises only 5% of the land but one third of the population and nearly two thirds of the manufacturing output. The oldest industrial region in the Northeastern United States is southern New England and developed as an industrial center in the early nineteenth century. The middle Atlantic area, between the NYC and Washington is the largest U.S. Market. Many industries that depend on foreign markets or imported raw materials have located near one of this regions main ports. Mohawk valley is the regions most important industrial century especially for steel and food processing and utilize the inexpensive abundant hydroelectric power generated at nearby Niagara falls. Pittsburg-Lake Erie is the nations most important steel-producing area. The Western Great Lakes is the third-largest U.S. Urban area automobile maufacturers and other industries that have a national market locate in the western Great lakes region to take advantage of the convergence of transportation routes. St. Lawrence Valley-Ontario Peninsula has three main assets centrality to Canadian market, proximity to the Great lakes and access to to inexpensive hydroelectric power from Niagara falls. The U.S has right-to-work states which are Southeastern states that have passed laws preventing a union company from negotiating a contract that requires workers to join a union as a
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