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Events relating to the Industrial Revolution
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Pierre Laclede Liguest and Auguste Choteau founded St. Louis as a fur trading post. It was selected because it was near the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
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James Watt developed a new engine that was run by steam.
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Edmund Cartwrght designed the power loom that would help mass produce cheap and light cloth.
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Samuel Slater built the first cotton mill in the United States by emigrating to the United States with memorized ideas on how to build one from Great Britain. The first cotton mill was built in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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The Clermont was the first successful steamboat and was made by Robert Fulton.
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Francis Lowell and several associaties, observed British textile mills and started their own textile mills in the United States. At this time the Boston Manufacturing Company was created and the Lowell mills were born.
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Henry Bessemer patened a method to mass produce steel with the converter.
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The American Transcontinental Railroad was finished connecting the western United States to the east.
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