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Samuel Slater

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Samuel Slater

"Father of the American Industrial Revolution"

Death: 1835

By Sienna Ware

Samuel Slater was an Early English-American industrialist who started the American Industrial Revolution because he brought British textile technology to America.

Textile Industry:

  • Slater became involved in the textile industry at age 14 while he still lived in England. He worked for the cotton mill for 8 years.
  • Believing that the textile industry in England reached its peak, he disguised himself as a farmer and secretly emigrated to the United States.

Positive Impacts:

  • Now, people can easily produce multiples of cotton yarn.

Negative Impacts:

Environmental Impacts:

  • The invention causes more air pollution.
  • More people are getting hurt while working.

Facts About Slater

Before The Industrial Revolution

Slater's Mills in the U.S.A

  • Slater was born in 1768
  • Slater was born in Belper, Derpyshire, England
  • After he reached the United States, Slater proceeded to build a factory of his own from memory and the Industrial Revolution had arrived in the United States.
  • Slater set up the first cotton mill in Rhode Island and soon set up more mills in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

What came to Samuel Slater:

  • Slater is now known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution".
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