History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1202 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Mills Multiply
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The idea
Thirteen more mills had been built by eighteen oh seven in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and seventy-eight new textile mills by eighteen twelve.
In practice
Mills placed in rural New England communities rather than in cities.
Where people slip
The average early mill employed about seventy workers, so this was a dispersal of small workplaces, not concentration.
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