The Industrial Revolution / Distribution of Industry

Target 11.1 and 11.2

Terms/Concepts

• Industry• Cottage industry• Industrial Revolution• 6 Key industries impacted by the

Industrial Revolution– Coal, Iron, Transportation, Textiles,

Chemicals and Food processing

• 3 Industrial Regions

What is Industry?

• Industry =– the manufacturing of goods in a factory

• Originated in northern England and southern Scotland during 1750-1800– Diffused in the 1800s to Europe and

North America– 1900s other regions

Origins of the Industrial Revolution

• Prior to the Industrial Revolution people made tools and equipment in their own homes or obtained from the local village

• Cottage industry system– Home – based manufacturing

Origins of the Industrial Revolution

• Industrial Revolution– A series of improvements in industrial

technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods

• Widespread • Social, economic and political inventions• Diffused gradually (did not happen

overnight!)

• Term is used to define the process that began (hearth) in the United Kingdom in the late 1700sTransformation of an Industry

Invention of steam engine most important to the development offactories

Transformation of Key Industries

• 6 Key Industries impacted by the Industrial Revolution– Iron– Coal– Transportation– Textiles– Chemicals– Food processing

Diffusion of Railroads

Distribution of Industry

• The major industrial regions are concentrated in three of the nine world regions.– Europe– East Asia– North America

Terms/Concepts

• Industry• Cottage industry• Industrial Revolution• 6 Key industries impacted by the

Industrial Revolution– Coal, Iron, Transportation, Textiles,

Chemicals and Food processing

• 3 Industrial Regions