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By 1800, Slater's mill had been duplicated by many other entrepreneurs as Slater grew wealthier and his techniques more and more popular with Andrew Jackson calling Slater the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution". But Slater also earned the pejorative "Slater the Traitor" from many in Great Britain who felt he betrayed them in ...
The emergence of great factories and the concomitant immense growth in coal consumption gave rise to an unprecedented level of air pollution in industrial centres; after 1900 the large volume of industrial chemical discharges added to the growing load of untreated human waste. [183]
Between 1800 and 1820, new industrial tools that rapidly increased the quality and efficiency of manufacturing emerged. Simeon North suggested using division of labor to increase the speed with which a complete pistol could be manufactured which led to the development of a milling machine in 1798.
The Hillbilly Highway was a parallel to the better-known Great Migration of African-Americans from the south. Many of these Appalachian migrants went to major industrial centers such as Detroit, Chicago, [2] Cleveland, [3] Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, Toledo, and Muncie, [4] while others traveled west to ...
The power came from waterfalls, and most of the factories were built alongside the rivers in rural New England and Upstate New York. [66] Boston Manufacturing Co., Waltham, Massachusetts. Before 1800, most cloth was made in home workshops, and housewives sewed it into clothing for family use or trade with neighbors.
This led to many business failures and periods that were called depressions that occurred as the world economy actually grew. [52] See also: Long depression. The factory system centralized production in separate buildings funded and directed by specialists (as opposed to work at home).
Cotton became a major plantation crop after 1800 in the "Black Belt," and throughout the region from North Carolina in an arc through Texas where the climate allowed for cotton cultivation. [3] Apart from the tobacco and rice plantations, the great majority of farms were subsistence, producing food for the family and some for trade and taxes.
The financial crisis of the 1870s caused major strikes across all industries. Most notable was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. [6] In her book “Once a Cigar Maker” Patricia Ann Cooper suggests that the cigar makers may have been inspired by this railroad strike [7] Whatever the inspiration was, by October 1877 over 10,000 women and men had left the factories and tenement rooms and were ...