https://padlet.com/heaven_estrada/3x15fusitxghz6ng Stops on the Cotton Journey en-us 2021-11-04 16:48:57 UTC 2026-02-26 07:46:11 UTC hello@padlet.com heaven_estrada https://padlet.com/heaven_estrada/3x15fusitxghz6ng/wish/1870407020 Agriculture began to grow largely into commercial operations and the South got more industrialized by the Cotton Gin and farms in the South made the most cotton. The black belt was a dark strip of dark soil from Georgia to the Carolinas.]]> 2021-11-05 16:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/heaven_estrada/3x15fusitxghz6ng/wish/1870407020 heaven_estrada https://padlet.com/heaven_estrada/3x15fusitxghz6ng/wish/1870427693 John Deere invented a horse-pulled steel plow to replace oxen-driven wooden plows. The steel plow allowed farmers to soil faster without having to make repairs as often. Also Eli Whitney's cotton gin that was used to separate their cotton fibers from their seeds. Using the cotton gin, cotton is cleaned when the machine separates the leaves and twigs from the raw cotton fiber and it dried ans compressed into lint.]]> 2021-11-05 16:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/heaven_estrada/3x15fusitxghz6ng/wish/1870427693