Global Effects of Industrial Revolution Test

8/2/2019 Global Effects of Industrial Revolution Test

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Global Effects of IndustrialRevolution


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Success

The industrial powers will use

their technology, tools, businessorganization, finances andtransportation networks to

spread industry to some pre-industrial societies.

Threshing and mud brick drying


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Russia

Rapid industrialization after 1870

Government sponsored industry tostrengthen society and allow resistance ofeconomic and military pressure fromEurope and the U.S.

Government demand for weaponsstrengthened industry.


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Trans-Siberian Railroad stimulates

mining and steel production and waseconomic link from Asia to Europe.


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Finance minister Sergei Witte reformed

commercial law, protected industry andpromoted technical schools.

Theodore Roosevelt with Russian delegates Sergei

Witte and Baron Rosen on the left and Baron

Komura and Ambassador Takahira on the right
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Japan

Government hired foreign experts andmanagers to bring modern techniques toJapan.

Government sponsored schools andtechnical universities, railroads and mines,banking, weapons (armaments), silk and

glass Government then sold these industries to

private entrepreneurs who built personalempires called Zaibatsu (Similar to trustsand monopolies in U.S.)

Japanese Coal Production (metric tons)

1875 600,000

1885 1,200,000

1895 5,000,000

1905 13,000,0001913 21,300,000


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Zaibatsu

Mitsui family controlled banking, mining,farming and textiles

Sumitomo dominated copper mining, machineand coal industries, forestry, banking andwarehousing businesses

Mitsubishi started with trading and merchantshipping, then expanded into mining,shipbuilding, real estate, iron and steel,insurance, oil refining, and chemicals.


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South Manchurian Railroad . . .

symbol of Japanese power and industrialization


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India

Had a private jute industry formaking carpets, upholstery andbags.

Had a small steel industry. Government support and financing

was not available so no largeindustry developed and smallindustry would be destroyed bycompetition from European(British) goods.


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Jute


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Plantation Nations India, Egypt, in Latin America, South

East Asia & Africa Plantations were owned by foreign

investors so the money made flowedback to Europe and the United States

I wish I could

buy some new

underwear.


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A never-ending cycle of poverty

No investment is

made in local industry Low wages paid do

not stimulate markets

Also, mineral wealth,once exported is non-renewable


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European Settled Lands Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa,

Australia, New Zealand Early export economies are owned by local

colonists who invest the new wealth inlocal economy.

Wage economies rather than slaveeconomies create markets and encourageinnovation to increase profits.

Happy days in South Africa


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For the first time: the gap between the

rich and poor nations will not even itselfout over time and will be nearlyimpossible to bridge.

I i l Di i i


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International Division:


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International Division:The rich and the not rich Industrial nations need raw materials

and agricultural products like sugar,tea, tobacco, cotton, rubber and

minerals.


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International Division:The rich and the not rich Industrial nations desire to keep

non-industrial regions subordinate.

Industrial nations need markets for

their finished goods.


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