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Where did they build textile mills?
The first textile mills were built in New England. The first yarn spinning mill was in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in the late 1700's. The first true textile mill was built in Boston around 1830. Soon many other mills dotted New England. There are still a few mills operating in the original old buildings in Fall River, MA, but overall the mills are few and far between.
What made New England a prime location for the American Mills?
New England had some fast running streams that could power the mills. It had Francis Cabot Lowell that went to England to see how mills ran there. It also had young women that needed a job to run the mills.
Mills were located in New England because of these?
rivers
Region of US where textile mills flourished?
New England
What did people in New England use from streams to run mills?
water
Who was the immigrant from England that helped build a new textile mill in Rhode Island based on the new mills in England?
Samuel Slater :)
How did new England colonists power saw mills?
Waterfalls/ Mill wheels in rivers.
What group of immigrants was most visible in New England textile mills in the 1840s?
women & children
Prior to the Civil War a transformation occured in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by who?
Irish Immigrants
How did most people earn a living in England?
How am I supposed to know!?Why didn't you ask Google in the first place!?They would have at least gave you a real answer.Most people in New England earned a living by working in factories and mills.
What was the first college in new England?
The first college in New England was the Northeastern University.
Workers in early Massachusetts textile mills were?
mostly young single women from the new england countryside..
