What was the rhode island system

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The RI system was a factory system started by Samuel Slater in 1803. He employed families to live and work at mill sites and built a mill village which was imitated and improved by innovators like Francis Cabot Lowell. ChaCha!

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Source: Who Made America? | Innovators | Samuel Slater | www.pbs.org

Description: Slater's factory system became known as the Rhode Island System.

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