How did the Industrial Revolution encourage imperialism? It created a need for raw materials and markets

Fun fact

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.