Industrial Revoliton

Samuel Slater was a mechanic who came to the United States from England in 1789. During that time in America, almost all goods were made by hand in the home. In England however the English mechanics had invented the spinning je

Yet with this profitable cash crop came struggles and tough times. Some of the costs of the Revolution were the spread of slavery and the immigrants. Slaves in the South had very hard labor. They worked all day long, some just picking the seeds out of raw cotton. Slavery was dying down when Southern Plantation owners realized that cotton was not going to be a very profitable cash crop. If Eli Whitney had not come along and invented the cotton gin, slavery may have just ended right then and we would not have had to fight the civil war. Another cost of the Industrial Revolution was the immigrants. The immigrants were the people who were most likely to work in the Northern mills. This was because most immigrants mainly come to America because of hard times in their country. The mills were a horrible place to work. They were loud and not very sanitary. Many people died. One disease that killed many

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