Spread of Industrialization
Leslieann Hoyl
Great Britain
By mid-nineteenth century Great Britain was the worlds first and richest industrial nation, producing one half of of the worlds coal and manufactured goods. Great Britain ,in 1850, the cotton industry was equal in size to all the other European countries combined!
Europe
The revolution was spread around at different time and speeds.
The first to be industrialized:
1. Belgium
2. France
3. German states
Governments were very active in encouraging the development; providing funds was a big part of their plan
By 1850 a network of iron rails spread across Euorpe
The Industrialization
North America
In 1800, six out of every seven American workers were farmers and no city had more then 100,000 people.
Grew from about 5 million to 30 million between 1800 and 1860 population in cities became larger, only 50% were farmers out of the population.
Railroad in America
The rail road began with fewer then 100 miles of track in 1830 by 1860 though 30,000 miles of track covered the United States turning the United States into a single massive market for the manufactured goods of the Northeast