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sam slater built the first american mill in 1789. The slater mills are mills in rhode island and they were giving people jobs because it was a new place to work. In 1793 in Pawtucket, Rhode island he built the first successful mill.

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he really liked the idea of interchangeable parts the trigger and other parts would be identical. He was making muskets with the parts and he was able to make a lot of muskets. He began producing muskets in a factory. he had to rely on interchangeable parts.

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The British Blockade decided to cut the Americans off from the supply of foreign goods, So the Americans had to produce their own goods from their own country. As a result they started to build more factories to profit from the manufacturing.

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A merchant named Francis Cabot Lowell, found a way to improve on British textile mills. they had 2 different factories, one spinning thread the other wove it into cloth. then they made a factory where they can spin thread and weave cloth in the same building.

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Francis Cabot Lowell died in 1821, so his partner decided to build a factory town in Massachusetts and name it after him. the village hosted 5 farm families.

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In 1825 jethro Wood began to manufacture an Iron Plow with replaceable parts. Then John Deere decided to improve on his invention and he invented a lightweight steel plow. before when plows were made from iron or wood they were pulled by oxen or horse.

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The first small cast iron stove was invented by Philo Stewart. It was invented in 1834 and it was made to fit in an average kitchen. In his factory they built wood burning stoves and it was a great success. They sold about 90,000

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By 1836 Lowell had over 10,000 people. people who visited the small town described it as a¨model community composed of small wooden housed, painted white, with green blinds, very neat, very snug, and very nicely carpeted.

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Girls were helping a lot with the labor in the mills and they made laws to protect the girls. a lot of the parents were hesitant about letting them work in these mills.they were all young woman who were supposed to get married.

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In 1847 Cyrus McCormick made factories in Chicago. The factories produced reapers which were mechanical devices which was a horse-drawn machines that cut and gathered wheat and grains. The machine was about equivalent to 5 men doing the work with hand tools