History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1204 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Boston Associates
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The idea
The Boston Manufacturing Company was founded in eighteen thirteen by Francis Cabot Lowell and the merchants known as the Boston Associates.
In practice
Four hundred thousand dollars raised to build mills at Waltham.
Where people slip
They went on to build the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, which gave the system its name.
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