Because that is where the people were. Remember, back in the mid Eighteen hundreds we did not have as many states and the west had few people there. Another reason is because there were rivers in these areas to transport goods, because we didn't have trucks and highways to deliver goods like today and railways were still developing. Also, places like Pennsylvania were rich in coal which could be used to power manufacturing plants.
The northeastern to midwestern part of the United States developed into the Manufacturing Belt because of the close proximity of Natural Resources, labor, marketplace, and cheap transportation. The iron and steel industry needed the iron ore of Minnesota and the coal of western Pennsylvania and West Virginia nearby. Food processing and farm equipment manufacturing industries grew as agriculture expanded and mechanized. The rivers and Great Lakes, combined first with the Erie Canal and later with the railroads, provided cheap transportation. The large population clusters, including Megalopolis, provided markets and labor.
The American manufacturing belt is in the Midwestern and northeastern part of the United States. This portion of the country has an abundance of natural resources. It also has a well-developed infrastructure.
because of the close proximity of natural resources, labor, marketplace, and cheap transportation.
because of the close proximity of Natural Resources, labor, marketplace, and cheap transportation.
because of the close proximity of Natural Resources, labor, marketplace, and cheap transportation.
The Rust Belt occupies the Midwestern and Northeastern US. Cities in this area include New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington, and Boston.
Because that is where the people were. Remember, back in the mid Eighteen hundreds we did not have as many states and the west had few people there. Another reason is because there were rivers in these areas to transport goods, because we didn't have trucks and highways to deliver goods like today and railways were still developing. Also, places like Pennsylvania were rich in coal which could be used to power manufacturing plants. The northeastern to midwestern part of the United States developed into the Manufacturing Belt because of the close proximity of Natural Resources, labor, marketplace, and cheap transportation. The iron and steel industry needed the iron ore of Minnesota and the coal of western Pennsylvania and West Virginia nearby. Food processing and farm equipment manufacturing industries grew as agriculture expanded and mechanized. The rivers and Great Lakes, combined first with the Erie Canal and later with the railroads, provided cheap transportation. The large population clusters, including Megalopolis, provided markets and labor.
The Rust Belt is a term used to describe the post-industrial northeastern and middle western areas of the country that due to the fall of the manufacturing age sunk into urban decay. The barriers of the Rust Belt begin in central New York and continue through Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
SWAG. Larger cities and a lack of a plantation system made a factory based economy more feasible in these parts of the U.S.
The slang term is "Rust Belt" which refers to the heavy manufacturing industries that waned in the face of modernization costs and international competition. The areas suffered considerable economic decline, increases in unemployment, urban blight, and some decrease in population. Affected urban areas included those in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Yes, its the center of the manufacturing belt...
The "Rust Belt" is a general phrase used to describe the upper mid-west states that were, historically, the homes to heavy industrialized manufacturing centers that are no longer. i.e. - Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, etc.
In the Midwest and Northeastern United States. In Canada, the "Dairy belt" is located in southern Ontario to southwestern Quebec.