Which statement best explains why mills, such as that established by samuel slater, were built along rivers?

rivers provided clean water.

rivers transported workers.

rivers powered the mills.

rivers provided water for production.

The statement that best explains why mills, such as that established by Samuel Slater, were built along rivers is option C. "Rivers powered the mills."

Samuel Slater was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution." He designed the first textile mills in the US. Eventually, he owned thirteen spinning mills and had developed tenant farms and company towns around his textile mills, such as Slatersville, Rhode Island.