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CHAPTER 25 SECTION 3

Industrialization Spreads

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Key Terms

StockCorporation

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Factors of Success

Political stability-1700’s at home the country was a peace, commerce thrived

Government support-Parliament passed laws that favored business

Growth of private investment-private funding for research and development

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Industrialization Spreads

Western Europe, Americas

Asia and Africa did not industrialize in the 1800’s

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Industry and the West

Western countries individual freedom a significant force

People enjoyed political liberty

People could compete Western societies

competition as goodWealth and fame was

the reward

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Industry and the West

Westerners exploited other countries to compete

Competed to improve inventions or processes

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Industry Comes to America

Britain outlawed the export of certain machines

Forbid skilled craftsman from leaving the country

1760- 1830 Industrial Revolution mainly in Great Britain

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Industry comes to the America

United States one of the first places to benefit from Industrialization

1791 Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of the Treasury) Industrialization would

help the United States gain economic independence

Wanted government to bribe British citizens to bring knowledge to U.S.

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Industry Comes to America

Samuel Slater came from Britain

Built a model of the water frame in Rhode Island

1793 built Slater’s Mill In Pawtucket Rhode island

Became the father of American industry

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Industry Comes to America

Textile mill technology spreads

Lowell Massachusetts becomes the jewel of American Industry

Lowell’s mills were forty multistory buildings on a network of 6 miles of canals

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Industry Comes to America

Lowell first all in one mill

Took raw cotton to fiber to finished cloth

Hired young single girls

Provided good wages and clean housing

10,000 workers employed by 1850

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Industry Spreads to Europe

1807 William Cockerill founded a textile factory in Belgium

Political unrest delayed industrialization of France

1848 France becomes an industrial power

Treaties helped drop trade barriers

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Germany Industrializes

Politically divided in early 1800’s

Ruhr Valley was coal rich

Germany began to copy British model

Sent children to England to learn industrial management

Imported British equipment and engineers

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Industry in Asia

Although today Japan is one of the more industrialized nations

Took until 1868 for Industrial Revolution to take hold

Meiji government came to power modernized the country

Japan was ahead of its Asian neighbors