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-The Erie Canal opened the Midwest to settlement. By providing a direct water route to the Midwest, the canal triggered large-scale emigration to the sparsely populated frontiers of western New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
-The two major advances in transportation that took place during the 1800s were the steamboat and the train.
-Waterways and a growing network of railroads linked the frontier with the eastern cities. Produce moved on small boats along canals and rivers from the farms to the ports. Large steamships carried goods and people from port to port.

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Technology
-Spinning Machines
Spin substances like cotton are spinned into a piece of thread or yarn with these spinning machines.
-Cotton in the north
northern textile mills spun cotton into cloth for sale, Merchants in the north had more money to invest in mills so more cotton factories were built in the north
-Mill town
A mill town is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles.

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-Slaves were used to plant, tend, and harvest cotton.
-Large plantations had field hands and house servants. House servants performed tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and driving, while the field hands labored for up to 20 hours a day clearing land, planting seed, and harvesting crops.

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- Slaves worked on the cotton farms
-Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana are the four major cotton-producing states. These four states combined to raise more than half of the world's cotton.
-The Black Belt is a fertile plain, generally 25–30 miles wide and stretching approximately 300 miles across central Alabama and northeastern Mississippi. A region of dark, calcareous soils, it was one of the South's most important agricultural areas before the American Civil War.

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Cost-
Profit-
Who makes money
New Orleans, Louisiana, and Galveston, Texas, were shipping points who, because of the increase demand and export of cotton, profited a lot. Also slave owners in the south made a lot of money from cotton as it was in high demand, therefore demanding more slave work.
What was cotton worth to plantation owners and textile company owners?   Cotton was demanded by the industrial textile mills in Great Britain, but was also worth a lot to Southerner planation owners as they made big profit from the demand making it very valuable to them.
Percent of profit to ‘workers’?
Most of the workers that picked the cotton where slaves and all the profit would go to there owner not them.

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Conditions- long hours, strict discipline and low wages
Pay- the workers where payed in wages based on how much and how long the worked.
Who worked at the factories- male slave labors, deskilled worker, but there was an increase in the number of women working in theses factories. There where a lot of immigrants working the factories, mostly from Ireland and Germany, making them more populated in the North due to the more job opportunities.

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Roads- the national road in Cumberland reaches Wheeling, West Virginia (then part of Virginia) this road became the gateway for thousands of west-ward bound antebellum settlers.

Railroads-  they where quick, scheduled and year round port of transportation that quickly took over the canal boom. They where also seen as a safer, less hazardous mode of transport.

Erie Canal- Erie Canal waterway (constructed from 1817 to 1825) was the first transportation system between New York City and the western interior of the United States, extending from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, the canal cut transport costs by about 95 percent. It also increased trade because it opened eastern and oversea markets to the Midwestern's farmer markets.
Illinois and Michigan - connected the great lakes to the Mississippi river and the Gulf of Mexico, helping making Chicago as the transportation hub of the U.S. It also was also a popular passenger route and was built by Irish workers that helped build the Erie canal.

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Machinery
-Cotton gin: revolutionized both southern agriculture and northern manufacturing.
-Mechanical Mower-Reaper: enabled profitable wheat farming in the West.
Time of Year:
How cotton was cleaned:
-Whitney's cotton gin: a hand-cranked device machine designed to remove sticky green seeds from short staple cotton, allowed southern planters to further expand cotton production for the national and international markets.