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| 48662348 | What were the pieces, that were falling into place,needed to make Cotton king in the south? | Demand for cotton, the cotton gin, demand for slaves | |
| 48662349 | 1830 | The North begins to play important role in cotton industry | |
| 48662350 | Why does America need to produce more cotton? | The English mills demand more cotton fiber. | |
| 48662351 | Lucy Larcom | ran boarding houses for young women who worked in cotton mills. | |
| 48662352 | Francis Cabot Lowell | Built a small mill in Waltham, Massachusettes - the first American to handle the total production of cotton cloth - carding, spinning and wearing. | |
| 48662353 | Who re-invented the Power Loom? | Francis Cabot Lowell | |
| 48662354 | What sparked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution? | the reinvention of the Power Loom. | |
| 48662355 | Textile industry | cotton mills | |
| 48662356 | What was the new American textile industry was able to do? | It could produce cloth for its own people (Americans) and for export. | |
| 48662357 | 1814 | Waltham mill opened and gave women jobs. Women wanted the ability to work. | |
| 48662358 | By 1840, | 9,500 women and men worked in Lowell textile mill, about 50% of the city's total population. | |
| 48662359 | How many major companies were operating textile mills in Lowell, by 1840? | 10 major companies operated more than thirty textile mills. | |
| 48662360 | Grower and plantation owners neede to what? | get the crops to market and sell it. |
