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Samuel Slater brings ideas from the british to America, which sparks the industrial Revolution
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Samuel Slater built a textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It is the first successful textile mill in the United States
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The lancaster road inproved travel beetween Philadelphia and central Pennsylvania
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In 1806, congress approved funds for a national roads building project.
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travelers and freight haulers used river transportation. Moving downstream was easy, but upstream was difficult. But when fitch and Fulton invented the steam engine, it became way easier to travel upstream. Becuase you didn't need to use paddles or long poles to puch the boat upstream
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With the admission of Mississippi to the union, the United States comprises 20 states
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The Erie Canal instantly brought down the cost of shipping goods by about 1 tenth of what it was prior. The success of the Erie Canal lead other states to build canals, this created vital economic links beetween western farms and eastern cities
