The Lowell Mills Textile Factories, Dred Scott, The Potato...

Lowell Mills The Lowell Mills were textile factories in Lowell, Massachusetts. These factories started popping up in the brink of the Industrial Revolution. These factories were very unlike many other factories that we think of because these were factories were people (mostly young women) are working in these factories, but also live on site. These young females were usually the ages 15-30 years old. This made up close to about seventy-five percent of the whole textile factory. These factories were very controversial because women were not usually working in these times. These young women decided to come to these factories to help make ends meet or try and get an education. The working quarters were very packed having usually 80 women in these small crapped rooms. This working condition would have never been able to work in today’s working factories. The living quarters where very small and where not up to standards by any means. These women where packed in like sardines and they had curfews by ten at night. These women also had very strict regulations to follow throughout the work day and many of these women did everything together. There overseers were usually men and they were pushed to work super-fast and super hard. The pay was more than they would get paid in many other places, but wasn’t very good for the hours they had to put in and the strict rules they had to obey. As time went on many of these women would see pay cuts and they would go on strikes, but these