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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONSPREADS
Migration – people move from one to another country…because of Push & Pull Factors…• Push: a feature or event that pushes a
person away from or encourages a person to leave their current residence, city, state, country…War…economy…environment…
natural disasters
Tsunami - Japan
• Pull Factors: feature or events that attracts a person to move to another area….
• Economic stability
• Good environment
• Peace
• Religious or political tollerance
Like Maui, Hawaii
THE UNITED STATES
• Rivers, Coal, Iron Ore, Immigrant Labor• 1789 – Samuel Slater emigrates to U.S.
builds a spinning machine from memory.• 1790 – 1st factory opens• 1813 – Francis Lowell mechanizes all
stages of manufacturing cloth.• Mill girls flock to “factory towns” (12 hr.
days/6 day weeks)
1860’s Technological Boom
• Inventions continue to build on one another• Electric light bulb & Telephone• Large population consumes manufactured goods• Advent of the Rail Road Era• Advent of huge Corporations:
Standard Oil – John D. Rockefeller
Carnegie Steel – Andrew Carnegie
Belgium
• 1st. European country to industrialize
• Natural Resources: iron, coal, waterways
• William Cockerill smuggles secret plans from England
Germany
• Rich in coal
• Imports British equipment & engineers
• Children are educated in England to learn management skills
• Builds Rail Roads
• Develops as industrial & military power
Slow Pokes
• France – French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815) slow trade and communication
• Austria-Hungary – extreme geography & social problems
• Effect: causes inequality between industrialized and non industrialized countries
GLOBAL IMPACT
• Industrialized countries look for raw materials in undeveloped lands
• Great Britain will lead in exploiting colonies – U.S. and Russia and Japan will follow
Cycle of Industrialization
• Developing new markets creates the need for more resources to supply factories.
• Greed for resources leads to…
IMPERIALISM
The policy of one country’s rule and domination over weaker lands and nations