Table of Contents Chapter One Slater’s Mill 5 Chapter Two A Revolution Begins 11 Chapter Three Quick Growth 17 Chapter Four Connecting the Continent 25 Chapter Five Change and Reform 31 Lasting Effects Chapter Six 37ﱖﱚﱘ Biographies 42 Timeline 44 Glossary 46 Websites 47 Reference Map 47 Index 48
Chapter One Slater’s Mill Samuel Slater was a young textile mill manager from Derbyshire England In 1789 he boarded a boat and left for the United States At the time British law did not allow skilled craftsmen to leave the country In order to leave Slater disguised himself as a farmer He sailed from London to New York where he hoped to use his skills and knowledge Britain did not want other countries to learn British technology Men such as Slater knew that their knowledge would be very valuable in other parts of the world In North America few people knew how to build and operate such machinery Slater hoped to make his fortune helping build a U S textile industry He had been an apprentice to a man who built machinery for textile mills He had learned everything about constructing and operating this Samuel Slater’s textile mill in Pawtucket Rhode Island was the first built in the United States ﱚ5ﱚ
