USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Textile mills produced cotton, woolens, and other types of fabrics, but they weren’t limited to just production. Textile mills brought jobs to the areas where they were built, and with jobs came economic and societal growth.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cotton was the backbone of the US economy in the nineteenth century: northern textile mills spun it into cloth for sale, southern planters sold it to Europe and purchased manufactured goods in turn, and New York speculators loaned money for the purchase of land and slaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -Northern textile mills and Southern cotton plantations depended on each other for a system of industry producing clothing. The South grew cotton on major plantations, almost always involving slave labor, and then shipped the cotton to the North to textile mills where this cotton could be made into clothing.

Detailed explanation-4: -A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first American cotton mill began operation on December 20, 1790. The mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, had water-powered machinery for carding and spinning cotton. A machine cards cotton by combing and untangling fibers while removing short undesirable fibers.