WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The beginning of industrialization in the United States is usually pegged to the opening of a textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1793 by the recent English immigrant Samuel Slater.

Detailed explanation-2: -The start of the American Industrial Revolution is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first industrial mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that borrowed heavily from a British model. Slater’s pirated technology greatly increased the speed with which cotton thread could be spun into yarn.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The American Industrial Revolution, sometimes referred to as the Second Industrial Revolution, began in the 1870s and continued through World War II. The era saw the mechanization of agriculture and manufacturing and the introduction of new modes of transportation including steamships, the automobile, and airplanes.

Detailed explanation-5: -Industrialization came early to New England because the industry that has led industrialization in many countries, cotton textiles, could use women who were available in New England. The early cotton industry in England used children; later cotton industries in Asia used men.