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3. Iron Industry: How did iron industry change as a result of James Watt's steam engine?
It made it used to provide a practical way to keep the ovens constantly heated for iron
4. Coal:
a. define coke: High-quality iron smelted with purified carbon made from coal
b. How is the distribution of steel and iron industry influenced by coal?
Coal was a lot more important to help create power and heat
5. Transportation:
a. Why was development in transportation necessary?
To move a large amount of supplies like iron
b. What two forms of transportation grew rapidly?
Rail Roads and Canals
6. Textiles:
a. define: textiles
Cloth that has been spun and put into a thread
b. How did steam power transform this industry?
The creation of mills
7. Chemicals:
a. What is the purpose of the chemical industry?
To Bleach and dye cloths
b. How are clothes dyed?
Bleach cotton with sulfuric acid
8. Food Processing: How did the industrial revolution and factory system contribute to the
growth of food processing?
New idea of canning food in glass bottles sterilized in boiling water
Goods Manufactured
Steel and Textiles
Textile
Motor vehicles
Ship Building
Major plants
Lots of Steel
United Kingdom
Rhine-Ruhr Valley
Mid-Rhine
Po Basin
Northeastern Spain
Moscow
st. peters burg
Volga
Urals
Kuznetsk
Donetsk
Silesia
10. Fill in the chart below on North Americas Industrial areas:
Industrial Region
Goods Manufactured
Textiles
Goods Manufactured
Trade
New England
Industrial Region
Middle Atlantic
Steel
Mohawk Valley
Pittsburgh Lake Erie
Western Great Lakes
Southern California
Southeastern Ontario
Japan
China
Goods Manufactured
automobiles, ships,
cameras, stereos, and
televisions
textiles and apparel, steel,
and many household
products
INDUSTRIAL REGIONS
12. Besides the top three industrial regions of the world, what two other countries are leading
industrial producers?
Brazil and India
13. What did the U.S. textile industry grow rapidly after 1808?
Rhode Island
14. What area in U.S. does manufacturing concentrate in? Why is it concentrated there?
North eastern quadrant of the US, because of dominance through a combination of historical and
environmental factors