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The cotton has been sold and now it is pay day. Workers in factories were barely paid and most of the money made from the cotton went to cooperate running the business. If loans were taken out to pay the farmers for cotton those loans would be paid off and the rest of the money sat in the pocket of the big man on top.

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After traveling across the US or even the world cotton finally finds it's destination and decides to settle in a home.

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A new era means a new way of life and this is when the steam boat was introduced. Large cargo boats were no longer run by sails but instead engines. These steam boats allowed easier ways to transport cargo around the world.

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With the market revolution in motion trade was not only happening in the US but all over the world.

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An overseer was a worker on plantations who would oversee the slaves and make sure that work was getting done. The man depicted in this image holding a whip was an overseer and these were typically poor white man who worked for the plantation owner.

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The factory conditions were not known for being good, in fact, they were really bad! Since workers could be replaced easily no one would complain about the long hours in a het sweaty compact factory because they could be easily replaced and the workers know that.

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Pay, Gender and What About the Children!

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Pay, Gender and What About the Children!

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Everyone liked the idea of not needing a specific skill to work especially immigrants so the factories were always ready to let new workers in. Because of this factories could treat workers however they wanted and because women were seen as inferior they would be payed less. Children were also hire to do dirty work that was dangerous and stressful and they were also payed less because if they dod not agree with the pay they would be replaced like *snap* that.

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The factories were fairly new, so there were no laws for how low someone could be paid or specific conditions in factories that need to be met. Overall poor conditions but at least we know that that will drastically change in the future.

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Milltowns were towns with large factories that produced products to be shipped out. If you lived in one of these towns, chances are you worked in a factory

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The spinning jenny in the machine that changed textile making forever. These machines were the actual creators of anything made out of cotton such as clothes, rugs, ECT. This machine could meet up with the high demand of cotton products.

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Factorys were used to turn cotton into various textiles and factories are what really changed how we work today.

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Plantations were not upkept by their master but instead enslaved unpaid workers and these workers did not just consist of enslaved Africans

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The railroads were another efficient way to transport cotton. It was also cheaper as well since you did not have to pay transport fees to go all around the ocean.

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The Ohio Canal was similar to the Erie canal in terms of transporting agricultural goods.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Now that Cotton did not have to travel all the way across the ocean high demand for cotton was demanded! This helped boomed the economy and shaped the ways we transport today.

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Inventors start getting creative and figure out ways to transport goods across America without having to go all around the ocean.

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This invention was made by Eli Whitney and his wife in 1793. The Gin picked the seeds out of the cotton manually without having to use labor. You'd think that this would reduce slavery but this expanded the idea of slavery to create more cotton faster.

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This belt consisted of many slave plantations and the main crop grown from the plantations was cotton. It was called the black belt due to its black fertile soil.

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Slaves ran most of the plantation in the black belt. They were in charge of the farming aspect of cotton.