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Compare And Contrast Russia And Latin America

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Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Industrial Revolution reconstructed Britain, the United States, Russia, and Latin America through changes in means of production, the economy, and social conditions. Although all four areas ended up with similar effects of the Industrial Revolution, Britain and the United States’ means to transform were different than those of Russia and Latin America. Great Britain was the first country to really experience industrialization. A combination of the small country, agricultural improvements, large population growth, increases in national wealth, and access to cheap materials and mineral resources allowed the Industrial Revolution to grow in Britain. Because Britain was such a small area of land, the transport of goods and materials was cheap through roads, rivers, and canals. Agricultural improvements resulted in an increase in the production of food which allowed people more disposable income in which they could purchase manufactured goods. Large population growth supplied abundances of laborers who could be employed in factories. Access to cheap materials from Asia and the Americas and mineral resources increased national wealth which allowed industrialization to continue. …show more content…

remained agrarian longer than Britain and as agriculture advanced, farmers were freed up to work in factories instead of on the farm. The U.S. borrowed the idea of machinery from Britain and after industrialization was established, they came up with their own “American” production system that exercised efficiency. The large land mass made transport of goods expensive until the railroad was built. The U.S. economy was heavily regulated by the government where the people did not believe in Marxism or socialism. No political party represented the working class. American workers had better standards of living, where

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