Question

Which of the following best describes Samuel Slater’s role in the technological

advances of this period in history?

A.) Samuel Slater did not play any role in the technological advances of this period.
Samuel Slater worked with Cyrus McCormick to help McCormick invent the
mechanical reaper.

B.) Slater’s spinning machines became the basis of factories in Rhode Island. New
England soon became a region of textile mills.

C.) Samuel Slater had the idea of using young women called “mill girls” to work in the
new textile mills.

Answer 1

The correct answer is option B. Samuel Slater designed spinning machines that stimulated the growth of textile mills in New England. These spinning machines became the base of factories in Rhode Island. Slater was known as the "father of the industrial revolution in the United States"

Answer 2

The correct answer is B. Samuel Slater's spinning machines became the basis of factories in Rhode Island. New England soon became a region of textile mills.

He established in 1793 on the Blackstone River, in Rhode Island, one of the first successful cotton spinning mills of the United States, succeeding to successfully reproduce the spinning machines, the drawers, the cardeuses and the banks with pins of Richard Arkwright. His hydraulic plant contributed to the advent of the industrial revolution in the United States.