EARLY INDUSTRIALISM IN AMERICA

Pre-Conditions to Industrialization

The civilizations that rapidly industrialized in the early 19th century all possessed certain favorable combinations of material resources and in particular rich agricultural land and adequate deposits of fuels and minerals, such as iron and coal deposits, to power and sustain the substitution of machine for hand labor. Later, Japan which lacks many of these elements, rapidly industrialized due in large part to its ability under strong national leadership to make effective use of imported ideas and techniques of organization. Some of the countrie

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duce staple crops for export such as tobacco in the South which was based on slave labor, an "elitist culture that did not reward the skilled inventor or the rising manufacturer" inhibited the development of local manufactures (Cochran 19). Early development of trade was centered largely in the northeast where it was facilitated by the collocation of urban centers accessible to the Atlantic trade routes. Dobson suggests the development of merchant capitalism was aided more than it was hampered by the connection with England, that the reduction of such trade during and after the Revolution and again in the first decade of the 18th century set back industrial progress and that it was dire necessity in the northeast, which lacked a major export crop it could sell abroad, which stimulated the drive for self-sufficiency (Cochran 19). At first, independence was indeed a "mixed blessing" (Dobson 50). Post-1812 Takeoff The natural resources which fueled early manufacturing were primarily a abundance of waterways which permitted trade to grow between the cities and the hinterland and served as power for the development of industries such as textiles and an abundance of wood, which, in the early 19th century, was more important than iro
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