This three-page undergraduate research paper examines the movement of the steel industry in the United States. The author notes that the movement of the steel industry across the United States began in the middle of the nineteenth-century when surveyors discovered the massive iron ore deposits in the Great Lakes states. The steel industry prospered for more than a century in America and was especially important during the two world wars. But the increase in foreign steel competition, as well as other economic developments, have led to a crisis in the American steel industry.