Chapter 17 (pg 827-861)

Lucianna Balica
2/22/16

          Global energy demands began to push against the existing local and regional ecological limits. The Industrial Revolution marks a human response to that dilemma as nonrenewable fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas replaced the earlier reliance on the endlessly renewable energy sources of wind, water, wood, and the muscle power of peopled animals. Europe and Britain were ahead of the world, coal fired steam engine was made, which provided an inanimate and almost limitless source of power. It can be used to drive a number of machines and ships. In the 20th century the Industrial Revolution became global as a number of Asian, African, and Latin American countries developed substance; industrial sectors. By the 18th century, major Western Europe societies were highly commercialized and governed by states generally supportive of private commerce. On their way to capitalist economies( buying and selling ). Great Britain was doing the best in the Industrial Revolution, many railroads were built. The middle class  benefited more from the Industrial revolution as well. The laboring class was overwhelming. The cities were vastly overcrowded and smokey, with poor sanitation. In the 18th century the life expectancy for England was only 40 years old. American Industrialization began in the textile factories of New England during the 1820sbut grew after the civil war. U.S was able to use funds to have an independent Industrial Revolution. The US government played an important role, though less directly than in Germany or Japan. Tax breaks, huge grants of public land to the railroad companies, laws enabling of industry.