A composition on American history

The process of American industrialization Before 1970s, the United States was a colony of the major capitalist countries in Europe, and its economy mainly depended on Britain, with little development of modern industry. After1812 ~1814 years of anglo-American war, it embarked on the road of independent development of capitalist industry. The industrialization of the United States also began with the cotton textile industry. 1790, imitating the British hydraulic spinning machine and establishing the first cotton mill; With the development of cotton textile industry, major industrial sectors such as wool spinning, ironmaking, food processing and wood processing have generally established new factories. By the middle of19th century, the machine industry had developed rapidly. 1828, the United States began to build the first railway. By 1865, the total length of the railway line has reached 35,000 miles. Large-scale railway construction not only promotes the development of heavy industries in the east (such as metallurgy, coal mining and machine building), but also promotes the growth of agricultural production in the west. Before the civil war (186 1 ~ 1865), the United States also basically completed the industrial revolution and established a modern industrial system. In the process of industrialization, the United States has made great use of the technological achievements of British industry and the European capital and production experience brought by foreign immigrants.