Great Britain or The USA

Early in the industrial revolution the choice of settling in the United States or Great Britain was not hard for an industrialist to make.  It became apparent that industrialist would succeed more if they settled in Britain. After reading the chapter "Observations on the Loss of Woolen Spinning, 1794" from the "Modern History" textbook and Porter's article on industrialization. Britain had many advantages that made it that made it successful during the industrial revolution. Since England had such a surplus of workers many of those without work because of the revolution had no choice but to get a job at the factory. This was very good for factory owners. This was good because they could lower wages without having the workers protest, giving them more money to put in their pocket. The workers wouldn't protest because they knew if they did protest their job would be filled by someone who wouldn't protest. Another thing that made Britain better was they got goods/ raw materials from their huge network trading routes. Since England was able to get a large amount of raw materials for its factories, the factories could work as efficiently as possible. A major invention that sped up the transportation of goods was the steam engine. A mining engineer, George Stephenson, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Steam locomotives transported goods all over the world, by land and by sea. Another reason England was the right choice for industrialist was because it was leading in commercial power making it easy for England to transport goods. All in all Great Britain is the better place to be if you are an industrialist.

Being a worker is a different story though. After reading Early Labor in New England, 1883 and Porter's article on industrialization it was determined that New England was a better place for workers to live . One reason New England would be better for the worker was he/she has more options, they have a wider variety of things they can do for a living. Unlike the urbanized England, New England had huge plots of land with rich soil that a farmer could make a sturdy living on. Also if the farmers were having trouble paying bills (almost all were) they could send their family members to factories to work. Factories in New England were better because the factory owners couldn't lower the wage without getting protested. Plus if there was the owners couldn't replace workers like those owners in Britain. This was great for the factory workers because their wages would be what they were promised . Also living in New England gave people the freedom to contribute to the world by inventing new things and starting up companies. For example because the US had such an abundant supply of wood so they made the best woodworking machines in the world. Another example is young Frenchman named Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours who brought  the United States his knowledge of the latest French advances in chemistry and gunpowder making. In 1802 he founded what would become one of the largest and most successful American businesses, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, better known simply as DuPont. All in all America was by far a better place to live if you were not high class

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Shows steam locomotive from the Industrial revolution times