https://www.google.com/books/edition/Waves_of_Prosperity/HDUaDAAAQBAJ?hl=zh-CN&gbpv=1&dq=Thirteen+water-powered+cotton+mills+in+paterson&pg=PT179&printsec=frontcover

During the American Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton was keenly aware of the industrial causes of the conflict. 

As an English holding, the American colonies were reliant upon Britain for most manufactured goods, whose production 

they enabled through the extraction of North America's natural resources. Prohibited by law from establishing industry, 

issues of supply, demand, trade, and tariffs were fundamental to the grievances of the colonies and the conflict's cause.

After the war, Hamilton began promoting his views on the economic needs of the new nation, serving as the first 

Secretary of the Treasury from 1789 - 1795. Concerned by the lack of manufacturing in the United States, he believed 

that a strong industrial system was the best way to help the new nation gain financial independence and become 

a world presence.

Silk City

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