WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Much of the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. originated in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, where iron ore, steel, textile, and industrial sectors experienced breakthroughs and emerged as global manufacturing leaders.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Eastern Seaboard from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania continued to be the most heavily industrialized section of the United States, but there was a substantial development of manufacturing in the states adjacent to the Great Lakes and in certain sections of the South.

Detailed explanation-3: -The beginning of industrialization in the United States is usually pegged to the opening of a textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1793 by the recent English immigrant Samuel Slater.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Industrial Revolution began in the Northeast, but it eventually spread throughout much of the country by the early 1900s. Large cities formed around factories and new technologies improved the production of goods, transportation, and communications.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the first 30 years of the 1800s, American Industry was truly born. Household manufacturing was almost universal in colonial days, with local craftsmen providing for their communities. This new era introduced factories, with machines and predetermined tasks, producing items to be shipped and sold elsewhere.