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A.PEEK INTO INDUSTRIAL

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WHY DID AMERICANS BUILD
FACTORIES?
The INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The American Industrial Revolution is.said to havebe9un in
Rhode Island in 1793,. when S.Jl,MU€L SLATER built the first·
American. spinnin9 mill, a factor� that mo.l<es cloth. Rhode
Islo.nd'S 9eo9ra1>hy wo.s perfect for wat.er-J>OWered mills,
and the Wo.r of 1812. mo.de it tou9h to 9et imported 9oods,
inspirin9 Americo.ns to find more efficient. wa�s to produce
their own. The most famous fo.ctory wo.s a textile mill .started
b� Fro.ncis Co.bot.Lowe\\ in 1814 and most\� emJ>lo�ed youn9
women. It was so .successful tho.t it led to the foundin9
of an entire town, called LOWELL, M-PiSS./\Cl4US€TTS.
The "Lowell 9ir\s" were j)Oid well, but the� wor\t-ed lon9
hours in 9nielin9 conditions.

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The Indostrio.i Revolution was Q time of 9reo,t innovation.
INTERCHANGRABLEPARTS: First
. · inirodilced.by'.ELI WHITNEY .
(who invented the COTTON GIN)
• for muskets for the a.rmy, these
· pi:¢-mahufactured, identical
pa,rts �reated tile possibility of
· MASSI'RODUCIION: .·
The TELEGRAPH, invented by
SAMU.Ill/I!, B..MOB.SE in 1831,
improved communication.
Using MOR,SE CODE, telegraphs
sent short pulses 'of energy along
a wlre that were translated irito
letters that spelled out messages.
(invention and discovery)
INTERCHANGEABLE
PARTS
STEA.i.'1 POWER: TELEGRAPH
The STEAMBOAT, perfected
by ROBERT FULTON in 1801,
improved river transportation.
The STEAMIOCOMOTlVE,
created by PETERCOOPER
in 1830, improved land
transportation and led to the STEAM POWER
development of railroads.
Once STEAM ENGINES were
improved by JAMES wATT i.n
· 1780, factories no longer had
to be located near rivers.
Missouri would el"lter the Uniol"l as a slave state, but Maine,
which was still a part of Massachusetts, would enter at the
same time as a free state. In all futllre applications for
st01tehood, slaver!! would be ille<:iOII north of the southern BRITAIN
border of Missouri, at latitude 3'9° 30'. The Missouri
COMJ>n:>Mise divided the land from the Louisiana -Purchase
into two different re9ions defined b!! slO\Ver!!· Slaver!!
WO\s increasinql!! becomin'?J an issue that divided the North
and South.

SPAIN
Relations between the U.S. and 'Britain improved, but tensions
with Spain were hii?Jh- The U.S. cl01imed western lrlorida
belon'?Jed to the U.S. because it was part of the Lo11isian01
""P1Jrch01se. Spain disa9reed. As AmericO\n settlers moved into
the \Florida territor�, the Seminole Indians native to the O\rea
rO\ided the settlements and helped slO\ves esc01pe.