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Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution. Origin of industry cottage industries  Industrial Revolution Impact of the Industrial Revolution especially great on iron, coal, transportation, textiles, chemicals, and food processing. Industrial Revolution. Transportation

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Industrial Revolution

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  1. Industrial Revolution • Origin of industry • cottage industries Industrial Revolution • Impact of the Industrial Revolution especially great on iron, coal, transportation, textiles, chemicals, and food processing.

  2. Industrial Revolution • Transportation • Critical for diffusing the Industrial Revolution • Canals, Railroads • Enables factories to bring in bulky raw materials to factories and finished goods to consumers • Textiles • Prior to the Industrial Revolution thread was spun at home on spinning wheels operated by hand and foot.

  3. Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution

  4. Industrial Revolution • Industrial regions • Europe • Emerged in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries • North America • Industry arrived later but spread faster than in Europe • East Asia

  5. Areas of Industry

  6. United Kingdom What are some things that Great Britain has done to promote industrial development?

  7. Rhine-Ruhr Valley What products and services did the Iron and Steel industries lead to?

  8. Mid-Rhine In the Mid-Rhine German- Frankfurt, Mannheim French- Alsace Lorraine

  9. Po Basin The Po Basin has attracted textiles and other industries because of workers willing to accept low wages and inexpensive hydroelectricity.

  10. Northeastern Spain Area of Catalonia with city Barcelona Spain is the 2nd largest motor vehicle producer in Europe (behind Germany). But what is the difference?

  11. Moscow Moscow is Russia’s oldest industrial area Specializes in products that require a skilled labor force.

  12. St. Petersburg Shipbuilding and other industries serving Russia’s naval ports in the Baltic Sea.

  13. Volga Why do you think the region holds such diverse industries?

  14. Urals Mineral Rich Urals Region! metal ores, coal, precious and semi-precious stones What did proximity to these inputs cause communists to locate near them?

  15. Kuznetsk Important manufacturing district east of Urals Coal and Iron Ore  influences Iron Ore and Steel Factories

  16. Donetsk Eastern Ukraine Largest producer of iron and steel in Eastern Europe

  17. Silesia

  18. New England Old industrial area in Northeastern United States

  19. Middle Atlantic Largest U.S. Market

  20. Mohawk Valley Industrial belt (Upper New York States along Hudson River and Erie Canal.

  21. Pittsburgh, Lake Erie Appalachian coal and iron ore.

  22. Western Great Lakes Now center of steel production due to convergence of transportation routes.

  23. Southern California Leading industrial area outside the northeast. Focus in Los Angeles.

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