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2. • The Industrial Revolution (1820-1870) was of great importance to the economic
development of the United States. The first Industrial Revolution occurred in Great Britain
and Europe during the late eighteenth century. It then centered on the United States and
Germany.

9. • Technology, in the form of railroads and other innovations that increased efficiency and
communication, drove industrialism. Industrialism, in turn, created the wealth and impetus
that drove the need for better technology. Technology became essential to American
economic success.
• Industrialism attracted rural Americans and many European immigrants to cities in the
United States. As a result, the U.S. shifted from an agrarian to an urban society. Immigration
became a key ingredient in the success of industrialism, since immigrants were willing to
work as cheap labor.

10. • The United States originally used horse-powered machinery to power its earliest
factories, but eventually switched to water power, with the consequence that
industrialization was essentially limited to New England and the rest of the Northeastern
United States, where fast-moving rivers were located.

11. • Thomas Somers and the Cabot Brothers founded the Beverly Cotton Manufactory in 1787,
the first cotton mill in America, the largest cotton mill of its era, and a significant milestone
in the research and development of cotton mills in the future

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