Joseph Story drew on the Contract Clause in a dissent for a case regarding the construction, over this river, of a toll-free bridge that put an adjacent bridge out of business. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this river upon which a city’s “associates” established a “manufacturing company” based on a similar business in the town of Beverly.
ANSWER: Charles River [accept Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge] (The “Boston Associates” operated the Boston Manufacturing Company out of Waltham.)
[10e] Needing more hydropower, an “associate” with this surname shifted textile production to the Merrimack River. Young “Mill Girls” staffed vertically integrated production centers in a labor system named after Waltham and a city with this name.
ANSWER: Lowell [accept Lowell, Massachusetts; accept Waltham-Lowell system; accept Francis Cabot Lowell]
[10h] Under this person, the “Mill Girls” organized into the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association, which distributed a number of “Factory Tracts” and published the periodical The Offering.
ANSWER: Sarah Bagley [or Sarah George Bagley]
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