jan 1, 1800 - Growth of industry
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- Mechanical inventions (cotton gin and interchangeable parts)
- Corporations for raising capital (selling of stocks to raise capital
- Cactory system (Lowell system in textile mills, employed young farm women to do factory work, child labor and immigrants)
- Labor (factory systems from Britain)
- Unions (long hours, low pay, bad working conditions, obstruction to labor unions
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