. A history of the United States. mportant friendly agreements did the United States and Great Britain makesoon after the War of 1812? REVIEW EXERCISES 1. Describe the migration of the loyalists to Canada during the Revolu-tion, and the effect on the conquest of Canada in 1812. 2. State the difj&culties which the new republic had with other nationsfrom 1783 to 1814. 3. State what friendly agreements the United States entered into withEngland in 1794, 1817, and 1818. 4. Did the Revolution have the same effect on American foreign trade asdid the War of 1812? Important Dates: 1812. The war with E
. A history of the United States. mportant friendly agreements did the United States and Great Britain makesoon after the War of 1812? REVIEW EXERCISES 1. Describe the migration of the loyalists to Canada during the Revolu-tion, and the effect on the conquest of Canada in 1812. 2. State the difj&culties which the new republic had with other nationsfrom 1783 to 1814. 3. State what friendly agreements the United States entered into withEngland in 1794, 1817, and 1818. 4. Did the Revolution have the same effect on American foreign trade asdid the War of 1812? Important Dates: 1812. The war with England A treaty of peace ends the war. CHAPTER XXVI NEW WORK AND NEW ROUTES One Consequence of War. — The interruption of foreigntrade by the Embargo and Non-Intercourse Acts as well asby the War of 1812 forced Americans to supply most of theirown needs. For several years they could not obtain thecottons, woolens, articles of iron and steel, and many otherthings which they had been accustomed to buy in Power Looms in an English Mill, 1820 They, therefore, built more iron mills, set up more spinningmachines, and wove more cloth. They used nine times asmany bales of cotton in 1815 as in 1810. The number ofspindles increased from 80,000 to 500,000. Merchants andshipowners, whose business was ruined by the war, began tobuild factories. In 1815 there were over 100 cotton millswithin thirty miles of Providence, Rhode Island. Weaving,however, was still done on hand-looms. 298 NEW WORK AND NEW ROUTES A Complete Mill. — In 1814 Francis Lowell, who hadvisited England in order to examine the power-looms, returnedto the United States and succeeded in constructing similarmachinery in a cotton factory in Waltham, factory differed from the English factories by bring-ing under one roof all the new machines for spinning, weaving,and finishing, so that they could be run by the same men built factories like Lowells. The machinery wassoo
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