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Why were mills built along the great lakes?
Because steel was the most important industry there.
Why did the factory in England were built on the banks of the river?
Cotton mills, corn mills, etc. where built along streams and rivers to use water power to run the machinery. When steam-engines took over, the factories and mills could be built anywhere.
The exhaustion of the forests in the Great Lakes region stimulated lumbering and timber mills in the piney woods of?
Texas
Why were the first mills in great Britain built near rivers?
They ran on water power
Samuel slater and his business partners built water-powered textile mills along New England rivers What family system did these factories rely on?
parents and children working together in mills
Was the north suitable for textile manufacturing?
Because there were many sources and the population at the time was much larger than that of the south. But after the civil war and the reconstruction of the south alot of the textile mills moved the the south.Trueee but it was because the great lakes. And at the time the textile mills used the water to get power. But the water goes along with the sources but still, it was The Great Lakes.
Do pulp mills use water?
Pulp mills and paper mills use a large amount of water from lakes, rivers and, in some cases, oceans
Where were most mills built and why were they built there?
Because these new machines ran on water power, most mills were built near rivers.
Where were mills built and why?
near a river
What economy was the north built on?
Factories and Mills
How did the saw mills of the 1700 work?
Many saw mills of the 1700's were built near woods. The saw mills were also built near or on top of water sources as a means of power and for easy transport.
What service performed at gristmills?
The millers crushed the grain between heavy stones to produce flour or meal. Human or animal power fueled some of these mills. But water wheels built along the region's plentiful rivers powerd most of the mills.
