THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
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Samuel Slater
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Eli Whitney
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Cyrus McCormick
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Detailed explanation-1: -No one was allowed to take information about the textile machinery out of Britain. *1789 – Samuel Slater (apprentice of Arkwright) came to US. He memorized the plans of Arkwright’s machines so he could rebuild them in US and get rich.
Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Slater built that first American mill in Pawtucket based on designs of English inventor Richard Arkwright. Though it was against British law to leave the country if you were a textile worker, Slater fled anyway in order to seek his fortune in America.
Detailed explanation-3: -Slater set foot in New York in late 1789, having memorized the details of Britain’s innovative machines. With the support of a Quaker merchant, Moses Brown, Slater built America’s first water-powered cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Detailed explanation-4: -Andrew Jackson called Slater, the father of American Industrial Revolution.