5.4

Industrialization Spreads in the Period from 1750 to 1900

AP World History: Modern

Why Britain tried to prevent industrialization from spreading

Samuel Slater

Industrialization in Continental Europe

Belgium

France

Germany

Russia

Industrialization in the United States

Industrialization in Japan: The Meiji Restoration

Comparison: Why some nations industrialized and others did not

Primary sources

Commodore Perry's message to the Emperor of Japan (1853)

The Charter Oath (Japan, 1868)

Sergei Witte, memoir on Russian industrialization (1890s)

Key figures

Key events summary

Vocabulary