Question

How did Samuel Slater and Francis Cabot Lowell change and advance American manufacturing?

They put up huge amounts of their own capital to hire as many people as possible to increase production.

They took production and machinery plans from England and improved them to start the textile industry in America.


They persuaded English investors to share their techniques and ideas to get the American textile industry going.

They invented machines that not only separated the cotton, but also sorted it according to grades and strengths.