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== = = = = = = =Changing a Nation with Transportation=

The Transportation Age was a triple threat in the scale of individual, world, and time changed. People, both as a mass and individually, were affected when the times created jobs, helped freed slaves escape, and allowed the process of moving to accelerate. The world was affected when the first “Magazines” got transported off of boats, allowing normal people to “meet” the movers and shakers as well as “visit” other countries, which, after the immigration and trade rate accelerated, forced nations to become industrial superpowers. Us today were affected when it helped us improve our safety standards (after all, trains nowadays don’t fly off the tracks) and those safety improvements sped into whole new ways of travel on the waterways, and it started racing sports like monster trucks when famous steamships raced one another. Porter Brasell
 * Industrial Revolution: A change in the making **

Life like before the Industrial revolution was hard. There weren’t a lot of jobs out there. It was hard to get jobs. People were getting fired. A lot of people were homeless. But farm life was simple, growing crops and providing food for people was done by hand. The demands for cotton lead the industrial because it was used for almost anything like Clothes. A person named Eli Whitney made an invention called the “Cotton Gin” It was so much they thought cotton was more than they could make. The terms supply and demand affected the textile industry by making mills but the mills were to slow at making cotton. Workers had to work harder and faster. So they made more mills. Eli Whitney’s Contributions were important because the invention of cotton gin made production of cloth faster and easier. Eli Whitney was the first to make interchangeable parts well known bymany people. He was kind of a saver for the town.
 * Industrial Revolution: The End Of The American Revolution **

The American Revolution ended in 1783 with a peace treaty. 13 new states were controlled by Britain United States had no mills like the ones in England. Brown textile manufacturer in Rhode Island. It was along the banks of the Blackstone River they made the first cotton thread ever spun automatic. American had plenty of raw cotton. Francis Lowell raised money for his family, and other investors. He built a small mill along the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts. The Waltham mill was the first mill where all the steps in producing cloth- from raw cotton to finished. They rename the new mill town Lowell, in his honor. In 1840, Lowell mills produce almost one million yards of cloth every week. Andre Levy