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• The Industrial Revolution is the process of producing goods with machines in order to labor more efficiently.
• The Industrial Revolution began in England due to its proximity to water, abundant raw materials, improved agricultural productivity, urbanization, legal protection of private property, access to foreign resources, and the availability of labor.
• The Industrial Revolution began in England due to its abundance of natural resources and a skilled workforce.
• England had been busy creating a global empire, accumulating capital, and had access to raw materials from their colonies.
• The advent of the factory system revolutionized manufacturing by allowing for mass production.
• Eli Whitney's invention of interchangeable parts enabled the manufacture of guns to be focused on individual parts instead of whole products, allowing for mass production.
• England's access to raw materials from colonies made it possible for them to create a global empire.
• The Industrial Revolution began due to seven conditions: the last time period England had been busy creating a global empire, the accumulation of capital, access to raw materials from colonies, the advent of the factory system, and the invention of interchangeable parts.
• The accumulation of capital largely due to the African slave trade enabled British capitalists to invest in new entrepreneurial opportunities.
• The Industrial Revolution spread to other nations such as Belgium, France, Germany, the United States, Japan, and Russia due to their similar advantages.
• The United States became the most significant industrial force in the world due to the influx of European immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century.
• Most of the immigrants to the United States were Irish and German, and they often settled in urban centers.
• Factories in the United States needed unskilled laborers to operate their machines, and immigrants fit the bill.
• While it was beneficial for immigrants to find work, they also found a substantial chunk of Americans who thought the immigrant presence polluted the American nation.
• In Russia, the Industrial Revolution focused on the building of railroads, with the late 19th century seeing the country undertake the magnificent feat of constructing the Trans-Siberian Railroad which stretched from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean.
• The completion of the Trans-Siberian Railroad significantly increased trade with eastern states like China.
• Another focus of the Russian industrial movement was the expansion of the steel industry, and by 1900 Russia was the fourth largest producer of steel in the world.
• Despite a revival of shipbuilding in Southeast Asia and India at the end of the 17th century, the increasingly oppressive British rule in India led to a severe decline in shipbuilding.
• Japan industrialized not because they thought western manufacturing processes were so great, but more defensively in nature.
• Around the time of the Industrial Revolution, there was an uprising in India against British rule, and the British suspected that much of the iron the Indians were mining was being turned into ammunition to be delivered into the bodies of the British, which they found incredibly rude.
• The British, for all intents and purposes, shut down the Indian iron industry and by the early 1800’s that industry was basically non-existent.
• The ground beneath the Indian soil was rich with iron, and they had previously prospered by it, but due to steep tariffs imposed by the British, the Indians found it was no longer worth it to mine the iron and engage in any kind of economically meaningful metalwork.
• The Industrial Revolution spread from 1750-1900.
• Japan decided to borrow western industrial techniques in order to make themselves viable in the new world order, but only to the extent that it enabled them to keep the western powers from coming in and sabotaging their traditions and culture.
• The share of Middle Eastern and Asian nations in global manufacturing declined during the period of the Industrial Revolution.
• The Japanese possessed an ancient culture, of which they were very proud, and they saw that wholesale adoption of industrialization would put their cherished cultural values at risk.
• The Industrial Revolution began in England due to its abundance of natural resources and a skilled workforce.
• The Industrial Revolution spread to other nations such as Belgium, France, Germany, the United States, Japan, and Russia due to their similar advantages.
• The United States became the most significant industrial force in the world due to the influx of European immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century.
• Most of the immigrants to the United States were Irish and German, and they often settled in urban centers.
• Factories in the United States needed unskilled laborers to keep their machines churning, and they often paid these machine churners next to nothing.
• The presence of immigrants in the United States was both good and bad, as some Americans felt that the immigrant presence polluted the American nation.
• In Russia, the Industrial Revolution focused on the building of railroads, with the country undertaking the magnificent feat of constructing the Trans-Siberian Railroad which stretched from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean.
• The completion of the Trans-Siberian Railroad significantly increased trade with eastern states like China.
• Another focus of the Russian industrial movement was the expansion of the steel industry, and by 1900 Russia was the fourth largest producer of steel in the world.
• The British, for all intents and purposes, shut down the Indian iron industry and by the early 1800’s that industry was basically non-existent.
• An uprising in India against British rule occurred around the same time, and the British suspected that much of the iron the Indians were mining was being turned into ammunition to be delivered into the bodies of the British, which they found incredibly rude.
• The Japanese possessed an ancient culture, of which they were very proud, and they saw that wholesale adoption of industrialization would put their cherished cultural values at risk.
• The share of Middle Eastern and Asian nations in global manufacturing declined during the period of the Industrial Revolution.
• Japan decided to borrow western industrial techniques in order to make themselves viable in the new world order, but only to the extent that it enabled them to keep the western powers from coming in and sabotaging their traditions and culture.