Good ideas spread. The Industrial Revolution will change the world. And that idea spread pretty quickly once it was out. Where does it spread? Initially, just to Europe and the USA. But, there will be attempts to copy this all over the world. Sometimes governments will get directly involved (but that’s a later section of this unit). For now, focus on the places that immediately start trying to copy Great Britain first…

1. AMERICAN SYSTEM
2. SLATER THE TRAITOR
3. SLATER MILL
4. SERGEI WITTE
5. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD

1. LETTER FROM SAMUEL SLATER TO MOSES BROWN (1789), Samuel Slater
2. FORMAL DECLARATION OF THE RESTORATION OF POWER TO THE MEIJI EMPEROR (1868), Mutsuhito
3. MEMOIR OF SERGEI WITTE (1911)
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1. SLATER MILL, PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND

2. KILOMETER MARKER 9,288 AT THE LAST STOP IN VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA

3. MATTHEW PERRY’S BLACK SHIPS ARRIVE IN TOKYO BAY IN 1853

1. The Industrial Revolution did not stay in Great Britain.
2. People initially directly copied British factories and then moved to the USA or Belgium.
3. Other nations will be innovating at the rate the British were doing in 5.3.
4. Governments often orchestrated this change like in Russia and Japan (you’ll see more of this later this unit)
5. The quicker you industrialize, the more advanced your economy will become. If you do not industrialize, or you are kept from industrializing; you will fall behind the West… SPOILER: The West will use this to their advantage in the next unit: IMPERIALISM.