Key Issue 1: Where is Industry Distributed?
Why was development in transportation necessary?
To bring in large numbers of workers, to bring in large bulky raw materials such as iron ore and coal and to ship the finished goods to consumers.
When and where did the Industrial Revolution start?
United Kingdom, late 1700s
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
What two forms of transportation grew rapidly.
Canals and railroads.
world's largest supply of low-cost labor
China
Major industries of Southern California
Clothing & textile furniture food processing
Major industry of New England.
Cotton textile
Where and what are the major industries of the mid-Rhine region of Europe?
Frankfurt- financial and Commercial Center Stuttgart-skilled high-value goods Mannheim- synthetic fibers, dyes, pharmaceuticals
How did the Industrial Revolution and factory system contribute to the need for food processing?
Invention of canning
How did the Industrial Revolution change textiles?
Invention of spinning frame transformed from a dispersed cottage industry to a concentrated factory system.
Define cottage industry.
Manufacturing based in homes rather than in factories, commonly found prior to the Industrial Revolution
How is the distribution of steel and iron industry influenced by coal?
Wood was getting scarce so manufacturers turned to coal to operate the ovens and the steam engines.
japan
became industrial power in 1950s and 60s
largest u.s. market
Middle Atlantic
Russia's oldest industrial region
Moscow
Europe's fastest-growing manufacturing area In 20th Century
Northeastern Spain
What is special about the Urals? Which industries are there?
contain the world's most varied collection of minerals hence iron & steel, chemical, machinery and metal fabricating plants.
Industries of Western Great Lakes
hub of the nation's transportation network and is now the center of steel production.
What is major industry of St. Petersburg, Russia?
shipbuilding and other naval industries
Pittsburgh-Lake Erie was the leading producer of _____ in the nineteenth century due to its proximity to _____________.
steel Appalachian coal and iron ore
What are the major industries in the United Kingdom?
steel & textiles (19th century); now - high-tech industries
What are the major industries in Northeastern Spain?
textile, motor-vehicle plans
What are the major industries of the Po Basin in Europe?
textiles
How did the iron industry benefit from the steam engine?
The steam engine could keep the ovens constantly heated to better produce the iron.
Advantage of Mohawk Valley?
upper New York state. Inexpensive electricity generated at nearby Niagara Falls.
Where is Donetsk? What resource is there?
Eastern Ukraine. coal
Canada's most important industrial area
Southeastern Ontario
What areas of the world are the principal industrial regions?
1. Europe 2. North America 3. East Asia
Major industrial areas in Asia:
1. Japan 2. China 3. South Korea - esp ships
Where are the major industrial areas in North America?
1. New England 2. Middle Atlantic 3. Mohawk Valley 4. Pittsburgh - Lake Erie 5. Western Great Lakes around Chicago 6. Southern California 7. Southeastern Ontario.
What are the major industrial areas of Europe.
1. UK 2. Rhine-Ruhr Valley 3. Mid-Rhine 4. Po Basin 5. NE Spain 6. Russia - Moscow, St. Petersburg, The Urals, Volga, Kuznetsk 7. Donetsk 8. Silesia
What are two major advantages the Po Basin has compared to Europe's other industrial regions?
1. Workers willing to accept lower wages. 2. Inexpensive hydroelectricity fro the nearby Alps.
world's largest port
Rotterdam
Where is Volga? What kind of resources are there?
Russia Petroleum and natural gas fields.
Where is Kuznetsk? What resources are there?
Russia. Coal and iron ore.
Europe's most rapidly growing industrial region
Silesia
leading producer of ocean-going ships
South Korea
