What was a major similarity between industrialization in the United States and industrialization in Japan

he correct answer is A) Great Britain industrialized before Japan and the United States.

A major similarity between industrialization in the US and Japan was that Great Britain industrialized before Japan and the United States.

The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in the mid 18th century and then it spread to the United States. It started in England with the invention of the textile machine that was enhanced by the English Samuel Slater. Although Britain wanted to produce textiles exclusively in England to export to other countries, that technology arrived years later to the United States. The industrial Revolution in Japan started in late 1890, at the end of the Miji era.

The other options of this question were B) Both Japan and the US were forced to industrialize by foreign powers, C) Both Japan and the US industrialized without any influenced of other countries and D) Russia supplied both the US and Japan with its first industrial technology.

rapid urbanization.