USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1790, Samuel Slater built the first factory in America, based on the secrets of textile manufacturing he brought from England. He built a cotton-spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, soon run by water-power.

Detailed explanation-3: -Religion: There was religious tolerance and freedom in the Georgia Colony that brought many religions into the region. New England’s economy centered on manufacturing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Textile manufacturing was the leading American industry before the Civil War and was concentrated in the Northeast because the region’s rivers provided both water power and transportation.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many historians point to the opening of a textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1793 as the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.