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important in human history because it marked a change in the world economy from an agrarian to an industrial base. It is also important because it spanned the globe; it
changed everything. As factories grew and began hiring workers, people moved from the countryside into the towns, which also began to grow and became great cities. The entire economies of
nations changed. The Industrial Revolution began in 1733 in England when the first cotton mill was built (IR Web: Information page; hereafter "IR Web"). New inventions were created, and factories
sprang up to exploit them, with the population following the new jobs, as noted above (IR Web). Because the English wanted to keep their industrial progress a secret (it would
give them a tremendous trading advantage), they made it illegal for any factory worker to leave the country (IR Web). In the meantime, Americans "offered a significant reward to anyone
who could build a cotton-spinning machine in the United States" (IR Web). Samuel Slater, who had been apprenticed in a cotton factory in England, disguised himself and came to the
U.S., where "he reconstructed a cotton-spinning machine from memory" and then built his own factory (IR Web).The Industrial Revolution had crossed the Atlantic. While the Industrial Revolution was instrumental in
the creation of cities and provided many jobs, it had a dark underside as well. Factory owners needed workers, most of it unskilled, so they put women and children to
work, paying them much less than they would have to pay skilled workers and men (IR Web). Children were often working by age 6, and some worked 14-hour days (IR
Web). The children earned low wages and had no free time during the day; some were sickened or killed by toxic fumes, while others were "severely injured and sometimes killed
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