The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
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Industry Comes to America<br />
1700 -1920<br />
• <strong>The</strong> United States, because of its economic relationship with<br />
Great Britain, was one of the first to benefit from England’s<br />
industrialization.<br />
• Alexander Hamilton – Secretary of Treasury under George<br />
Washington – argued that industrialization would help the<br />
United States.<br />
• Samuel Slater, a highly skilled mill worker from Great Britain,<br />
traveled to the United States to make a fortune.<br />
• Textile mill industry spread throughout northeast United<br />
States – Lowell mills
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