What are some of the factors that discourage the growth of industrialization in certain European countries?
Explain that industrialization spread unevenly to other parts of the world. Ask students to name countries they know of that are industrialized or are still developing.
a. Conditions that promoted industrialization;
b. How scientific and technological innovations brought about change;
Trace the spread of industrialization through Europe and the United States.
Identify the effects of industrialization on the rest of the world.
Industrial Development in the United States
Industrialization in the United States
Later expansion of us industry
The rise of Corporations
The Industrial Economy
How corporations became so powerful
Continental Europe industrializes
Beginning in Belgium
Germany industrializes
Expansion elsewhere in Europe
History of Industrial Revolution
The impact of industrialization
Rise of global inequality
Transformation of society
An anonymous engraver depicts activity in a Dutch shipyard where workers build a massive, oceangoing sailing ship. In the seventeenth century, Dutch ships were inexpensive to operate, yet they accommodated abundant cargoes. What kinds of cargoes were Dutch ships likely to carry in this period?
Stock
Right of ownership in a company called a corporation
Corporation
Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not responsible for its debts
Why did Britain want to keep industrialization secret?
Why might railroads be even more important to the US industrialization then it was to Britain?
Why you think Cockerill took secret plans to Belgium?
How did German industry help create political unity?
What did less developed countries get from industrialized nations?
How do you think industrialized nations chose the area they would colonize?