Cotton Journey by Vasilia Boukis https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo en-us 2021-11-04 16:38:29 UTC 2021-11-08 16:52:30 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.adama.com/documents/130172/5816584/Cotton+field/df173f34-c121-49f3-aee5-5db9f387ce70?t=1522246680766 Planting and farming vasiliaboukis https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867969777 The farms that produced the most cotton were in the black belt, a region of very fertile soil in the south.

]]> 2021-11-04 16:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867969777 Harvest and technology used vasiliaboukis https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867971240 The cotton gin, which assisted in cleaning raw cotton, and spinning jenny were widely used in production, usually during the summer months.

]]> 2021-11-04 16:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867971240 Workers/slaves of the cotton crop vasiliaboukis https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867973164 There were slaves for planting, tending, and harvesting the crop.

]]> 2021-11-04 16:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867973164 Transport vasiliaboukis https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867974289 Better roads, canals (possible bc steamboat) such as Erie, railroads (over 30000 miles) most important new transportation

]]> 2021-11-04 16:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867974289 Factory vasiliaboukis https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867975638 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.

]]> 2021-11-04 16:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867975638 Factory worker vasiliaboukis https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867976608 It switched from women working at home for goods to bringing people to factories together as well as many immigrants for a wage.

]]> 2021-11-04 16:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867976608 Foreign transportation vasiliaboukis https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867980090 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.

]]> 2021-11-04 16:53:19 UTC https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867980090 Destination vasiliaboukis https://padlet.com/vasiliaboukis/y0g7ka17boyp42qo/wish/1867981605 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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