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Chapter 11 Industrialization Part A
1. In creating contracts, both parties should perceive that the contract that they are entering into voluntarily is beneficial. What do the Maquiladora laws do for Mexico? How do the laws benefit both the USA and Mexico?
2. Why does the author say that the term “Industrial Revolution” is misleading?
3. In our last unit we learned that the Second Agricultural Revolution was the result of many new techniques and tools, not just the steam engine. Other than the steam engine, what techniques, patents, policies… contributed to the Industrial Revolution?
4. Why didn’t the Industrial Revolution diffuse rapidly from Britain to the rest of Western Europe?
5. List the four major manufacturing regions from Figure 11-3 and circle those which speak an Indo-European language. Which are contiguous?
6. Skip to Page 381 Key Issue 3 and read about site and situation. Then read the Glossary’s definition for each. Which definition, site or situation’s, changes the most? 7. Skip to page 385 and read the section on the Saturn Plant. Why was the location of the plant based primarily upon situation?
8. What were other site factors that the CEOs took into consideration?
9. Why was the choice for the Saturn Plant’s location surprising and why do you think they chose that location?
Now go back to page 375. For each of the following locations, list the site and situational factors that helped establish the regions’ original industrial base.
North America Site Situation New England (makes textiles)
Middle Atlantic (makes __________)
Mohawk Valley (makes __________)
Pitt.-Lake Erie (makes __________)
Southern Lake Michigan to Lake Erie (makes __________)
St. Lawrence Valley (makes __________)
10. Page 377: Discuss the USA’s multiple Push and Pull factors that are resulting in the shift of industry from the Northeast to the west and south. Push
Chapter 11 Industrialization Part A
1. In creating contracts, both parties should perceive that the contract that they are entering into voluntarily is beneficial. What do the Maquiladora laws do for Mexico? How do the laws benefit both the USA and Mexico?
2. Why does the author say that the term “Industrial Revolution” is misleading?
3. In our last unit we learned that the Second Agricultural Revolution was the result of many new techniques and tools, not just the steam engine. Other than the steam engine, what techniques, patents, policies… contributed to the Industrial Revolution?
4. Why didn’t the Industrial Revolution diffuse rapidly from Britain to the rest of Western Europe?
5. List the four major manufacturing regions from Figure 11-3 and circle those which speak an Indo-European language. Which are contiguous?
6. Skip to Page 381 Key Issue 3 and read about site and situation. Then read the Glossary’s definition for each. Which definition, site or situation’s, changes the most? 7. Skip to page 385 and read the section on the Saturn Plant. Why was the location of the plant based primarily upon situation?
8. What were other site factors that the CEOs took into consideration?
9. Why was the choice for the Saturn Plant’s location surprising and why do you think they chose that location?
Now go back to page 375. For each of the following locations, list the site and situational factors that helped establish the regions’ original industrial base.
North America Site Situation New England (makes textiles)
Middle Atlantic (makes __________)
Mohawk Valley (makes __________)
Pitt.-Lake Erie (makes __________)
Southern Lake Michigan to Lake Erie (makes __________)
St. Lawrence Valley (makes __________)
10. Page 377: Discuss the USA’s multiple Push and Pull factors that are resulting in the shift of industry from the Northeast to the west and south. Push