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