Chapter 17

From 1750-1900 Europe started to industrialize and started to dominate globally. The industrial revolution was also significant in Europe because Europe was able to draw resources from their colonies. Also, because Europe was motivated by profit and money and because it was encouraged by the European government. 

The industrial revolution specifically started in Britain because Britain had a lot of available workers and it would be easy to create companies. There were so many available workers because people started to leave the agriculture work and started to move towards manufacturing and mining because they paid better. The industrial revolution in Britain led to the middle class benefiting the most and the working class to suffer. The working class suffered because they had to work long hours and reviewed terrible pay. They also had to move to overcrowded cities that were filled with poor sanitation. As the population continued to rise many people began to migrate to the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand where there were high demands for labor. 

The industrial revolution in America was pretty successful, but during this revolution became a huge wealth gap between classes. This huge wealth gap caused many protests in the USA that still linger today. 

The industrial revolution in Russia was not as solid as the one in the USA. Russia's industrial revolution was led by the State and was heavily focused on building railroads and have industry. The living conditions during the industrial revolution in Russia were very bad. The conditions were so bad after the Russia was defeated by Japan, that people revolted and created their own political parties. However, that was ended by the Russian government, but during WW1 there was another revolution that led to a socialist group to come to power. 

A majority of Latin America's population was in poverty after independence. As they became more self dependent, Latin American countries started to export food and raw materials to other countries around the world. The exports caused the upper and middle class to benefit, however the exports did not lead an industrial revolution because the amount of poor people in the lower class. 

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