History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1201 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Slater and the First Mill
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The idea
Samuel Slater, a British migrant, understood the workings of the latest water-powered textile mills, which the British industrialist Richard Arkwright had pioneered.
In practice
Slater working with wealthy merchants including Moses Brown at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in the seventeen nineties.
Where people slip
The first successful American cotton mill was built on British designs carried across the Atlantic in one man's memory.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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