RESEARCH ETHICS
COMMERCIALIZATION
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Question
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Where were most of the nation’s early factories built?
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New England
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the Midwest
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the West
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the South
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Why were most of the nation’s early factories located in New England? Swift-moving streams and rivers provided a source of power, poor soil conditions made farm families willing to do factory work, and it had ships and access to the ocean to transport finished goods.
Detailed explanation-2: -Industrialized manufacturing began in New England, where wealthy merchants built water-powered textile mills (and mill towns to support them) along the rivers of the Northeast. These mills introduced new modes of production centralized within the confines of the mill itself.
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