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Who founded the American textile industry in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, by building a spinning jenny based on English technology?

A.
Eli Whitney

B.
Samuel Slater

C.
Robert Fulton

D.
Francis Lowell

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it is b samuel slater
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It was "B. Samuel Slater" who founded the American textile industry in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, by building a spinning jenny based on English technology. This was one of the many feats that gave Slater the title of "Father of the American Revolution"
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