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  • Women made up the majority of the textile factory system's labor force.
  • Samuel Slater and Francis Lowell both established a version of and improved on the British factory system in the United States.
  • The factory system originated in Britain and American visitors relocated a version of the system to the US.

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Robert Owen
Robert Owen
British social reformer
Francis Cabot Lowell
American industrialist