The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 · THE MAP AROUND
Map of the industrial world around 1830
The Cotton Kingdom and an independent Latin America
The industrial world around 1830: The Cotton Kingdom and an independent Latin America. Since 1806, 25 territories changed status on this map: including Mexico (New Spain to 1821), Guatemala, Honduras and 22 more.
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What changes on the map
| Mexico (New Spain to 1821) | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Guatemala | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Honduras | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| El Salvador | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Nicaragua | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Costa Rica | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Panama | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Colombia | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Venezuela | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Ecuador | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Peru | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Bolivia | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Chile | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Argentina | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Uruguay | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Paraguay | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Brazil (Portuguese to 1822) | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Dominican Republic | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| The United States (British colonies to 1776) | Agrarian economy → Industrialising |
| Belgium (Austrian Netherlands to 1795; independent 1830) | — → Industrialising |
| Switzerland | — → Industrialising |
| France | — → Industrialising |
| India | — → Colony or dependency |
| Algeria | — → Colony or dependency |
On the ground
- the Cotton Kingdom of c. 1830, spreading west on enslaved labour
- the coffee plantations of the Paraíba valley and São Paulo, worked by enslaved people until 1888
- the Bengal weaving district in decline after its export markets were lost to machine-made cloth
- the New England textile district of Lowell, Fall River and Providence
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