Lincoln capitalized on the fact that a majority of the factories and rail lines were in the north which helped manufacture and distribute weapons and supplies to troops on the battlefront.
The start of the American Industrial Revolution is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first industrial mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that borrowed heavily from a British model. Slater's pirated technology greatly increased the speed with which cotton thread could be spun into yarn.
Dutch brought trade goods and took back cargoes of sugar, wine, hides
