Rust Belt Basics
This term describes the region of the US known for its great industrial capacity in manufacturing, coal production, and steelmaking.
What is the Rust Belt?
The Rust Belt’s peak performance came during these years, beginning in 1876 and ending in 1949.
What is 1876-1949?
Rust Belt workers formed these organizations to win better pay, working conditions, and hours.
What are labor unions?
Companies moved here, creating industrial growth in this region.
What is the South (the Sun Belt)?
The Sun Belt’s agriculture was boosted by this “Revolution.”
What is the Green Revolution?
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are all major states in this region.
What is the Rust Belt?
Coal and iron were two of these, which the region had in abundance.
What are natural resources?
The growth of this social class was the impact of good industrial jobs and strong unions.
What is the middle class?
Lower labor costs and fewer of these made the South attractive to companies.
What are labor unions?
Immigrants make up a large part of the Sun Belt population, working in agriculture and in these jobs.
What are factory jobs?
Along with Pennsylvania and West Virginia, this Northeastern state has portions that are part of the Rust Belt.
What is New York?
The Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Great Lakes gave the region this kind of advantage.
What is a geographical advantage?
The Rust Belt began to decline in this decade.
What are the 1950s?
After WWII, Southern industry grew to help meet the needs of this continent.
What is Europe?
The 1st Urban Revolution depended on growing a food surplus and having a way to do this with it.
What is distribute it?
The Rust Belt’s three types of industrial production named on the slides are manufacturing, steelmaking, and this fuel.
What is coal?
Rust Belt industry progressed from steel and coal to machines, then automotive parts, then these.
What are weapons?
Manufacturers left the Rust Belt for the South because of high labor costs here and lower wages and no unions there.
What is the South?
Aerospace and military manufacturing grew in the South, as did this industry in Texas.
What is oil?
The 2nd Urban Revolution was driven by industrial innovations and this activity.
What is manufacturing?
Missouri and this Great Lakes state, home to Milwaukee, are both listed among the major Rust Belt states.
What is Wisconsin?
Factories and jobs drew workers in large numbers, causing this process of city growth.
What is urbanization?
Name any two results of the decline: devastating unemployment, a shrinking tax base, poverty, or this word meaning being uprooted.
What is dislocation?
The Sun Belt’s tourism draws include Florida, Las Vegas, and this part of California.
What is Southern California?
This term describes the tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner.
What is urban sprawl?