World History II

Chapter 23: The Revolution in Energy and Industry
1760 to 1850

22: Mon, Nov 18, 2019

Please read the chapter and take the quiz by midnight on Sun, Nov 17, 2019.
Please also post in the forum for the day a short essay in response to these questions:

Your text states: “The latest findings on the nineteenth-century experience are encouraging. They suggest that there were alternative paths to the industrial world and that there was and is no need to follow a rigid, predetermined British model.”

• What key resources did Britain possess which fostered its Industrial Revolution from 1750 on?
• How do different natural, economic, political, and human resources affect the development of industrialization in Europe and the US?
• What additional resource challenges did (do) countries attempting to foster industrial revolutions face after 1850 that did not affect Britain (or the US)?

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