HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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creative destruction
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textile mill
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mercantilism
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genocide
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Detailed explanation-1: -Silk, wool, and linen fabrics were being eclipsed by cotton which became the most important textile. Innovations in carding and spinning enabled by advances in cast iron technology resulted in the creation of larger spinning mules and water frames.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tasks such as fetching water, and tending livestock would have kept women as busy as clothing and feeding a family, while many also took other work into their home such as hand-spinning or weaving.
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. These mills introduced new modes of production centralized within the confines of the mill itself.
Detailed explanation-4: -The region’s largest industry, the manufacture of cotton textiles, also was the largest industry–that is, it employed the most workers–in the United States as a whole. The second-largest industry in New England was the manufacture of boots and shoes.