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The Growth of Cloth Making Machines
In Great Britain inventors created cloth making machines that could spin thread. Here machines ran on the power of swiftly moving water. They built factories, called mills, along rivers. After workers were done working at these mills they would get paid a certain sum of money. This was the start of the industrial revolution. This helped America because influence from Great Britain caused more things to be invented, better sometimes. -
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The Growth of Slavery
From 1790 to 1810 the number of enslaved African Americans grew drastically. It quickly jumped from 700,000 people to 1.2 million people. This all was caused by the invention of the cotton gin, which created an easier way to produce cotton. This helped America by leading there to be more cotton, but slavery was not a good thing. -
Passing the Patent Act
This Patent law protected inventors rights. A patent gives the inventor the sole legal right to make money from an invention for a certain period of time. This helped America by allowing more people to want to invent more things. -
The Creation of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented a machine called the cotton gin. This invention quickly and easily removed seeds from the picked cotton. This led to a huge increase in cotton production. This helped America by helping them earn money from exports -
Slater's Mill
(The date is an estimation, I couldn't find anything that said the day.) Francis Cabot Lowell improved on the Slater's mill sometime in 1814. Lowell's Massachusetts cloth factory not only made thread, it also wove the thread into fabric. He began the factory system in which manufacturing steps are combined in one place. This helped America by making products easier to make.
