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A good thing about cotton is that it was easily stored and shipped.
Cotton moved to city's and ports on steamboats that made their way through rivers and canals. A large export city was New Orleans, with lots of goods going to Liverpool, England.
Popular waterway's were Erie and the Mississippi.

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Cotton produced an exported value of 5 million dollars in 1800 and 227 million dollars by 1870. America supplied 80% of the world’s supply. While workers (which included children) get paid 12 cents a day. Investors of these mills earned 22 - 75% of the profit from the textile industry.

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Canals helped overland shipping, especially the Erie Canal, it became the most popular U.S. port. Canals also opened up travel between the Midwest to the East, the Midwest farm products were made more accessible. And made transportation to the west easier.

Ships to Europe included steam boats and clippers. Steam boats were used for speed. Clippers were used to carry bulk cargo.

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Plantation workers walking back with bags of cotton 

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3.) Workers and Slaves of the Cotton Crop

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3.) Workers and Slaves of the Cotton Crop

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3.)
-African slaves on a cotton plantation did not only work in the field. On a large plantation many jobs had to be done. Other jobs done by slaves include;
-Carpenters
-Cooks
-Seamstress
-Blacksmith
-And many others

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The conditions for the factories’ workers were poor and dangerous. Workers consisted of the lower class, immigrants (mostly from Ireland and Germany), and young single women (which were the targets of the Lowell system). The Lowell system provided education and housing for the young single women as they worked until they got married. Workers were paid in wages and by the hour instead of the sunlight.

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5.) Factory (picture: Housatonic, Massachusetts; a Mill town)

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5.) Factory (picture: Housatonic, Massachusetts; a Mill town)

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Mill towns we’re towns surrounded in manufacturing. They resides in the North and processed cotton through the Textile Method. Cotton was put through the cotton gin which quickly and efficiently separated the cotton from the seeds. The cotton was then spun into thread by the spinning jenny and then woven into textiles through the power loom.

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2.)
-Machinery?
The cotton gin was a machine that allowed for faster, cheaper, and more efficient work. However it did not decrease the demand of labor, instead cotton production grew 800 percent during the start of the 1800's- leading to a larger demand for slaves.
-Time of year?
Cotton planting took place in March and April. Cotton harvesting in the south starts in July and is ready to harvest when the bolls crack open and the fluffy white cotton is exposed.
-How was cotton 'cleaned'?
Cotton is cleaned by laying out the cotton in a cool dark area and allowing it time to dry. Once dried seeds were picked out by hand and was very time consuming. After the development of the Cotton Gin the machine was used to more efficiently separate the seeds.

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1.)
- The farms that planted and produced cotton were mainly in the South. Places such as Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and other warm climates.
-The black belt is a term coined that refers to areas in the South where the plantation system- with large numbers of black slaves- predominated before the Civil War.