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Mill Times

As you watch the video, answer the questions:

1. How did waterpower change the production process?

2. Why did mills develop in New England?

3. What were the potential dangers of working in a mill?

4. Why did Francis Lowell create his factory?

5. From where did he get his workers?

6. What was life like for these workers?

7. What structures were in place to keep the factory (and its workers) moving efficiently?

8. How did working in the factory change the lives of these workers?

9. How did the development of the factories change the relationship between employers and laborers?

10. What was the relationship between the North and the South at this time?

11. How did the steam engine change where factories needed to be located? How did it change the sources of labor used in the factories?

12. Why were factories criticized? What were the benefits of the factory system?