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Farms were mostly held in  the south and due to the cotton gin started to become more commercial farmlands than subsistence farmlands

The black belt was a fertile plain 25–30 miles wide and stretched 300 miles across central Alabama and Mississippi

The black belt was 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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Eli whitney created the cotton gin which created a lot of boom in the cotton industry due to how efficient it was and made cotton the number one export in the US 

James Hargreaves produced the spinning Jenny to increase wool mill productivity by allowing the operator to spin eight threads instead of one

]]> 2021-11-04 16:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867976069 michaeltownsend3 https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867978442 As the cotton gin was created the demand for labor skyrocketed and this caused a major problem for abolitionist who were trying to end slavery and caused more talk about the issue.]]> 2021-11-04 16:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867978442 michaeltownsend3 https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867979557 Typically to get materials from Cincinnati to New York you would need to go down the Mississippi river, through the gulf of Mexico, around Florida, and up the Atlantic coast.

This later changed due to canals and steamboats which connected the great lakes with the Hudson river. People were able to then take resources down the Mississippi river or along canals and roads for direct transportation.]]> 2021-11-04 16:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867979557 michaeltownsend3 https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867979783 Waltham, Massachusetts was the origin of Francis Cabot Lowell's textile mill and he created a system in which the spinning of cotton and weaving it into textiles allowed for a more efficient form of producing goods.]]> 2021-11-04 16:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867979783 michaeltownsend3 https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867980461

As the textile industry starts and begins paying their workers in wages instead of based on a price like artisans

They also start to  get paid through currency instead of goods as well as needing to clock in and out to know how much they make

Women became the main labor force due to being offered a education, immigrants and kids were also hired in textile mills

]]> 2021-11-04 16:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867980461 michaeltownsend3 https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867981050 Americas ability to export cotton and textiles increased due to the steam engines ability to move on canals quickly allowing for the time it takes to export quicker increasing the amount of profit. ]]> 2021-11-04 16:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867981050 michaeltownsend3 https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867981630 Advances in transportation allowed for many to start moving west more reliably as well as move information and resources from place to place faster which fed into textile mills, cotton farming and brings us back to the farms who gain the most profit due to their exports of cotton.]]> 2021-11-04 16:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/michaeltownsend3/tejavmbreimr83ox/wish/1867981630