One huge, important, and major factor that lead to industrialization in the United States was the War of 1812.
During the War of 1812, British naval ships blockaded the United States coast line, cutting off ALL foreign trade and supplies. This forced many colonial systems to collapse due to lack of resources, thus pushing cottages together to form a unified system.
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Urbanization was an important consequence of industrialization in the US. This was mainly due to immigration, new technologies, the rise of big business through industrial trusts, and raise of capitalism.
Urbanization and middle class relate to industrialization in the sense that the middle class form the larger part of the industry's labor force and urbanization provides this pool of laborers.
Industrialization encouraged urbanization due to the migration of people to cities who came to seek for employment opportunities.
British industrialization was led by private companies, while Chinese industrialization was led by the government. Prior to 1949, China's industrialization was greatly hampered by the invasion of Japan.
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