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    all of the rest. Primarily‚ the change in agricultural output led to the change in the need workers. Moreover‚ in the south‚ as talked about in the book‚ the cotton industry was beginning to boom at rates where plantations became so large they needed more workers. Mainly‚ these plantations owners would end up buying slaves to harvest the cotton. In the video “Brotherly Love”‚ it talked about the tens of thousands of slaves that were forced into the south per decade. This‚ in large part‚ can be attributed

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    Industrial revolution Although it occurred around the same time as the French‚ American‚ Latin American‚ and Haitian Revolutions between‚ say‚ 1750 and 1850—the industrial revolution was really the most revolutionary of the bunch. No way‚ dude. All those revolution resulted in‚ like new borders and flags and stuff. We have studied 15‚000 years of history here at crash course‚ me from the past. And borders and flags have changed plenty‚ and they’re going to keep changing. But in all that

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    children of the poor were expected to help towards the family budget‚ often working long hours in dangerous jobs for low pay‚ earning 10-20% of an adult male’s wage. In England and Scotland in 1788‚ two-thirds of the workers in 143 water-powered cotton mills were described as children‚]In 19th-century Great Britain‚ one-third of poor families were without a breadwinner‚ as a result of death or abandoning of them. Some boys who were not even able to get into the industries they would have had to start

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    American civil war and The Revolution‚ a new more commercial state was developed after the death of an old subsistence world. The American integrated industrial revolution technology into a new marketable economy. New national transportation networks and mills powering were fueled by a technology that moved steam boats‚ railroads and steam power. The market revolution spread across the nation and farmers grew more crops for commercial purposes. Cities and factories arose in the northern region. A new middle

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    Slater’s life he owned thirteen spinning mills‚ established tenant farms‚ and towns around his textile mills such as Slatersville‚ Rhode Island. Slatersville was one of his first mill villages. Many political and economic people knew him. The fact that he is the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” puts him on top of everyone. He revived American Industrialism and the creation of the Textile industry. When Andrew Jackson met him in one of his mills‚ he gave him the name “Father of the American

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    in England in the mid 1700s and greatly increased the output of machine-made goods. Inventions‚ such as canals‚ crop rotation‚ and factories/mills‚ spurred the Revolution (Ch 9 Sec 1). The idea later then arrived in Asia‚ mostly Japan‚ about 70 years after the first textile‚ or fabric‚ mills were built in the United States. In building the different cotton and silk factories‚ the Japanese were influenced by England‚ Italy‚ and America to use their ideas for

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    to check out the mill screw barrel displacement‚ we must first understand the structure. Ball mill is made up of feeding‚ discharging‚ rotary part‚ transmission part and other major component parts. In the hollow shaft of ball mill feed and discharging end‚ spiral tube is installed‚ and it has spiral line‚ according to the rotation direction of the grinding body‚ which depends its left or right-handed‚ spiral tube connects with central shaft. Generally the coordination of ball mill screw barrel and

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    The children are carried on the backs of the older children asleep to the mill‚ and they see no more of their parents till they go home at night and are sent to bed.” Richard Oastler‚ interviewed in 1832. Children worked as street cleaners‚ sold products on the streets‚ worked in the match factory‚ cotton mills‚ shipyards‚ construction sites‚ chimney sweeping and coal mining. Children were first being employed in cotton mills in the Industrial Revolution.

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    they were forced to work in the factories and mills around Britain they used to work alongside their parents in the fresh air and farms of the rural villages. The factory owners approach poor families and orphanages and offer them a home to sleep in‚ food to eat and clothes in exchange for hard labor. The first jobs children often work at are in the water powered cotton mills‚ they are called apprentices. The spinning factories

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    industries grew and increased the need for industrial labor. For example‚ the cotton industry grew and the creation of mill girls appeared‚ who worked in mills weaving cotton (Schaller et al. Pg.382). Industrial labor was also interconnected with slave labor as both participated in the cotton and tobacco industry. For example‚ there would be no mill girls in the cotton industry if there was no slave labor available to pick cotton in the South. The growth of industrial labor caused American cities to grow

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