(RVS) Industrialization Spreads Lesson

Industrialization Spreads Lesson

The Industrial Revolution soon spread throughout Europe and America. Germany was quick to embrace new industrial technologies with its large supplies of iron and coal. They built a large network of railroads, iron & textile factories and by the mid-1800s, Germany had become one of the world's leading industrial leaders & had built a powerful modern military to support themselves. In the United States, the Industrial Revolution helped to make the U.S. a world power. Cotton was produced in the South and then transported by railway to the North where the textile mills were located. After the Civil War, American industry boomed & the United States became a world leader in railroads, oil, steel, electricity. As Industrialization spread, it gave tremendous economic & military power to those it affected. Northwestern Europe, the United States, Russia and Japan all benefitted from the advantages of the Industrial Revolution and what it provided. However, not all were affected positively. In the Middle East and Asia, global manufacturing declined. Although the countries were still producing manufactured goods, it was not to the scale as it once was now that Europe had latched onto the various new means of production that came about from the Industrial Revolution. Shipbuilding in India and SE Asia, iron works in India as well as textile production in India and Egypt were all areas experiencing declines in production due to the increase of industrial production in Europe, Russia, Japan and America.

 

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