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in the 1780's Edmund Cartwright built a loom powered by water. It allowed workers to produce a lot more cloth then what they used to produce. This invention changed how goods were made all around the world.

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Samuel Slater was one of the people that worked in a textile mill, also know as the creator of the slater mill. The textile mill was used for making cloth.

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Eli whitney was the creator of interchangeable parts. Interchangeable parts benefited the entire machine industry by making extra parts to a pistol for example. So when a part breaks in a pistol only that part needs to be repaired and not the whole pistol.

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In the 1800's kids as young as 7 would be working in factories for long hours everyday. Now this would be considered cruel but back then it was perfectly normal.

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The lowell girls were a group of girls who worked years in the mills until they went home to get married. The lowell girls played am important role in America by providing labor to the industrial revolution.

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In order to operate and set up, spinning mills cost a lot of money. Capitalists supplied this money however. A capitalist
is someone who invests money to make a profit. Capitalists build factories and hire workers to run those factories.

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by 1836 the amount of people in factory towns blew up to over 10,000 people. Visitors described it as a model community with 100's of small wooden houses.

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Pollution in New York became such a problem in the 1850's because giant piles of garbage was being thrown into the streets. Many diseases and epidemics killed thousands of people from water contamination alone.

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The water wheel was able to move logs through a mill as they were being cut into boards. The waterwheel, turned by a waterfall or stream provided the power to operate the mill.