Vermont History - The St. Johnsbury School

Fourth Grade Industrial Revolution and Vermont

Textile Mill

Samuel Slater: Father of the American Industrial Revolution	Grade Level:
Samuel Slater began the Industrial Revolution with the construction of the first successful textile mill in 1793 in Rhode Island. Read the story of Samuel Slater. He became involved in the textile industry at age 14 in England. Find out about his organizational methods, which included employing children. He built provided housing, a company store and even churches for his workers. Life in the mill village is described with text and images. You can read about child labor during this time in history. Information is given about the Slater Mill Historic Site and Slaterville.
Topic: Child labor--History, Industrial revolution, Industrialists
URL: http://www.woonsocket.org Sleepers Awake! The Industrial Revolution Comes to Antebellum St.Johnsbury http://www.vermonthistory.org/journal/69/vt69_s10.pdf

Benning Wentworth
(1696 - 1770)

http://www.virtualvermont.com/history/bwentworth.html

It can easily be said that if it hadn't been for Benning Wentworth, Vermont probably would not exist (at least, not as we know it).

Vermont Genealogy Resources

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vermontgenealogyresources/NHgrants.htm

List of New Hampshire Grants Between January 1749 and October 1764, New Hampshire's Govenor Benning Wentworth issued 135 grants for land in what is now known as Vermont. Over 100 of these grant towns still exist.

History of the US-New Hampshire

http://www.usahistory.info/New-England/New-Hampshire.html

The territory that afterward became New Hampshire was included in a grant of land in 1622 by the Council for New England to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, both of whom had been interested in New England affairs from the beginning. The grant extended from the Merrimac River to the Kennebec.¹…

New Hampshire Grants

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0835422.html

New Hampshire Grants, early name (1749–77) for Vermont, given because most of the early settlers came in under land grants from Benning Wentworth, the colonial governor of New Hampshire. Although the 1664 charter for New York set New York's eastern boundary at the Connecticut River…

Vermont Secretary of State-Kids Page

http://www.sec.state.vt.us/Kids/history.html

Vermont history resource page. Links to everything Vermont.

Vermont Newspaper Project

http://library.uvm.edu/vtnp/vnphistory.html

Wedged between New York and New Hampshire, Vermont was known as the New Hampshire Grants until shortly after the American Revolution…

Further Information about NH Grant, Benning Wentworth, Bernie Sanders, Howard Dean, and Patrick Leahy

Worldbook Student

http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/products?ed=all&gr=Welcome+St+Johnsbury+School

Infoplease

http://www.infoplease.com/

Fact Monster

http://www.factmonster.com/

Destiny-Webpath Express

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