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Cotton was around 10 cents in the early and mid 1800s, but it was extremely profitable and plantation owners and textile company owners profited off of this the most while workers stll had a barely livable wage.

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The most important canals in the country were the Ohio and Erie, connecting different parts of the country. Many foreign transports first came into the New York harbor.

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It switched from women working at home for goods to bringing people to factories together as well as many immigrants for a wage.

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Spinning machines and looms were used to make cotton into textiles (especially in the north), the American textile mill was fully realized in the mill town of Lowell.

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Better roads, canals (possible bc steamboat) such as Erie, railroads (over 30000 miles) most important new transportation

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There were slaves for planting, tending, and harvesting the crop.

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The cotton gin, which assisted in cleaning raw cotton, and spinning jenny were widely used in production, usually during the summer months.

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The farms that produced the most cotton were in the black belt, a region of very fertile soil in the south.