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How did Samuel Slater and Francis Cabot Lowell change early American industry?

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They refused to employ women and children in their textile mills.

They created the garment district in New York City.

They built steamships to ship cloth to countries around the world.

They opened textile mills that employed many workers.

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They opened textile mills that employed many workers.

(They brought British textile technology to the U.S. — Slater built early water-powered mills, and Lowell developed integrated mills in Lowell, MA that employed large workforces, including many women.)