...9:30am Over the past hundreds of years cotton has evolved greatly. It has also been a huge part of history. It played a major part in our civil war, slavery, and England taking over India. The Modern Marvels: A History of Cotton video is jam packed with interesting facts and a vivid timeline of how cotton has evolved through the ages. It is more than you would ever truly want to know about cotton. Beginning with where cotton comes from, how it is picked, spun into yarn, woven into fabric, unexpected items that contain cotton or byproducts, why it is such an amazing fiber, etc, etc. The program, though only an hour long, is overly informative yet still interesting. I feel it gave me insight into the world of cotton and I learned a lot about the history. A lot of the interesting facts were previously covered in class and were reiterated in the video. I feel the video was educational, yet interesting which is a hard combination to create. The program begins with an in depth description of the cotton picker. The cotton picker can harvest six rows of cotton at a time and about 80 acres a day. There are 480 spindles attached to rotating drums to pick off ripe bolls while the rest of the plant remains in tact. The video then goes into a detailed description of how the cotton is processed through the cotton picker. Cotton is then compressed into modules and taken to the cotton gin. Although this is obviously an important part of how cotton becomes a consumer product, it is one...
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...During the Harlem Renaissance The Cotton Club was one of the most famous nightclubs in history. The cotton club was located in New York City in Harlem. The club operated from the 1920's to the 1930's. The Cotton Club was mostly about jazz. Jazz is the art of individuals working in unison to make one sublime sound. This establishment was for whites only, all though it featured some of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians this era had to offer. In 1920, heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson opened the Cotton Club under the name “Club Deluxe” on the corner of 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in the heart of the Harlem district. Owney Madden, a prominent bootlegger and gangster, took over the club in 1923 while imprisoned in Sing Sing and changed its name to the Cotton Club. A deal was arranged between the two that allowed Johnson to still be the club’s manager. Madden used the cotton club as an outlet to sell his number one beer to the prohibition crowd. The Cotton Club was a “Whites-only” foundation. Even in the heart of Harlem, the race line divided the black performers from the white patrons. Inside the Cotton Club, African themes were exploited and only "jungle music" was played to an all white audience. Duke Ellington put together one of the most talented jazz bands ever to walk on stage to play for the patrons of The Cotton Club six nights a week. As the twenties went on, Ellington would continue his huge success at The Cotton Club into many classic recordings...
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...Eli Whitney's, Cotton Gin changed slavery, the South and American history because before the farmers living in the South who grew cotton could only remove could only remove the seed, from the soft fiber of cotton, from only about one-pound of short staple a day by hand which was not very slow to do since you had to take the seeds from one plant at a time. Soon after seeing the problem’s that American Cotton farmers had Eli Whitney had the idea of making the Cotton Gin that worked efficiently at removing the seeds from cotton and, the way that it worked is that you would put the cotton in the machine that had a series of hooks that would carry the cotton through a mesh that would be only big enough for the cotton fibers to go through, so the seeds would be separated instantly....
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...------------------------------------------------- REsearch Paper By: Asad Rafique July 31, 2014 Professor Russell History 121 July 31, 2014 Professor Russell History 121 Causes Of Civil War Generally, texts have showed that inconsistency between northern and southern financial prudence initiated the Civil War. The industrial revolt in the North, throughout the first few years of the 19th century, resulted into Machine age economy that depend on wage manual worker, not slaves. At the same time, the Southern states continuously to depend on slaves for their agricultural economy and cotton manufacture. South made enormous revenues from cotton, slaves and struggled to sustain them. Northside did not require slaves to maintain their economy so they fought to free abolish slavery as whole from United States. History shows us the agricultural economy was indeed one cause of civil war, but it certainly wasn’t the only cause. Wars are complicated and there causes are not simple understandable. In this research paper we will discuss causes what started the Civil War. A war that separated the nations, ruined harvests, towns, and railroad lines. Many issues embarked the nation into disorder in 1861. Key administrative foundations contain the slow collapse of the Whig Party, the establishment of the Democrat Party and, the 1860’s voting of Abraham Lincoln as president. Religious disagreement to slavery also increased, braced by ministers and protestors such as “William Lloyd Garrison”. Ecological...
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...Introduction: A Brief History of Global Trading and Cotton It is undeniable that under the influence of globalisation, the development of global economy is flourishing. Driven by the technological development, the world becomes smaller, connects tighter, and, at the same time leads to the simplification and reduction of trading process and costs, including the production cost and transportation cost and so forth. The global specialisation/ division of labour in the globe also contributed to the global production and global trading. Under the impact of globalisation, the global trading network becomes more and more complex, and this is the phenomena that scholars called ‘Economic Globalisation’. When studying globalisation, people usually regarded...
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...Money Backed by Cotton, What went wrong? In 1861 the American Civil War had begun. The North held most of the industrialized states and the South almost all the agrarian ones. More importantly the North had under its control all of the original gold supply which backed its form of currency at that time. So what did the South have? They had cotton. The South controlled almost all of the cotton produced in the United States. It was Americas leading export before the war and England’s and several other countries primary import. The American South had “accounted for 77 percent of 800 million pounds of cotton used in Great Britain.”(Dattel) It was essential to the European economy that they have cotton. The South decided to back their money and there by their war effort with cotton. It was a great plan which if it had been executed properly might have meant a different country all together then we have today. The South believed that since they controlled most of the world’s cotton supply they could drive up the price of it by imposing an embargo on themselves which would drive up the price of cotton all over the world. The Confederacy also believed that this would force Great Britain, who had declared themselves to be neutral, to side with the South in the war since cotton was the basis for their large textile industry. They were correct in some of their speculation the price of cotton began to soar at the beginning of the Civil War. King Cotton Diplomacy had begun...
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...EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION The history of the United States and its inception included the slavery of Africans. Africans were either sold to or trapped by their captors and brought to the American Colonies to serve their masters. In the beginning, the Africans were treated as indentured servants, wherein they worked for seven years and were released from service as free persons. Eventually, this policy was ended and the slaves were forced to work without compensation for their entire lifetime. Eventually, there was a move in the North to industrialized machinery and labor and slaves were no longer necessary for workforce purposes. Also, there was a faction of the population of the Northern states that simply believed that slavery was wrong and should not continue. These persons were known as abolitionists. However, it was the Southern States that continued to thrive on agricultural products. The continuation of this agricultural economic engine needed the labor provided by the slaves. This dependence was increased after the invention and patent of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1794. The “inadvertent result of the cotton gin’s success, however, was that it helped strengthen slavery in the South. Although the cotton gin made cotton processing less labor-intensive, it helped planters earn greater profits, prompting them to grow larger crops, which in turn required more people. Because slavery was the cheapest form of labor, cotton farmers simply acquired more slaves...
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...Topic: “What crops were important to the English Colonies in the south of North America? How did the cultivation of these crops shape the colonies?” Cotton, corn, and tobacco were the most vital to the success of farmers in the south, and helped format the South, and its people into the way it is now. Cotton and corn required immense amounts of labor to pick, tend, and harvest the crops. Also, tobacco is favored, and popular here in the south still today; all these ways crops helped shape the southern colonies in the United States of America. Typically it was slaves and a few lower class whites that provided the large amounts of labor that are needed to efficiently harvest corn and tobacco, and pick cotton, and remove the seeds from the cotton. Obviously, labor was the key ingredient to making the South successful, and making the people who live there tough, worn out, and hard to break. Cotton, at the time, was one of the main resources for clothing. The low bales produced put cotton on high demand, at high prices. Southerners cut costs by using cheap, inexpensive slave labor. “Ample evidence indicates that slaves worked well below their capabilities. In several instances in Mississippi, when cotton picking was carefully supervised in local experiments, slaves picked two or three times their normal output. The records of the Barrow plantation in Louisiana revealed that inefficiency and negligence were the cause of two-thirds of the punishments inflicted on slaves…”(1)...
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...If you take a look at history, one event leads to another, which leads to another, and so on. This is especially true during the Industrial Revolution. So let’s take a trip back to 1793, after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber. This is when he a revolutionary discovery that would change the business industry forever. He learned that he could use interchangeable parts when building guns, which made the building process quicker and easier to assemble and easier to repair. Using interchangeable parts meant that he could produce a large amount of the guns for a lower price. In 1814, Francis Cabot Lowell made it even easier to make goods. He took all the steps of making clothing and put them into one building. This was the first textile plant and was the start of the...
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...Justin Bain AGB 430 Term Paper December 2, 2013 Cotton’s Hedging and Futures 1. Introduction a. History of the cotton market The history of the cotton market here in N.C did not really get big until the mid-1990’s when farmers figured out they could get a better yield with cotton based upon the climate and soil types here in N.C. So the grain production fell off as people started growing cotton and liked how the market was set upon compared to the grain market when it is ever changing and hard to set a high price and never know when the grain is going to go up or down. Now in 2013 here in N.C there is still a lot of cotton acres but not as many as ten years ago based upon the widely uses of grain now and the price which has hurt the cotton market but has also keep competitive with other markets like soybeans or corn. Also farming has changed a lot to with most farmers going more and more acres which year and expanding their operation to become more diverse and be able to play into different agricultural markets. The cotton market has to keep a bare minimal to be able to get growers to grow enough acres to be able to support the textile mills. This is where most of the virtual marketing comes into play. Marketing is very important to a farmers and his operation because that depends of the amount of profit he is going to make that year and also how much input he is going to put into that crop to make it the best it can be. Now days it is hard because of the price of...
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...Have you or anyone ever thought of “life on the plantations for slaves?’ Well in this essay I will be talking about how slaves were brought from Africa to work in the antebellum south, they were working in different parts in the plantations. Life on the plantations for slaves was bad because they had to work before sunrise and until sunset, they had to obey their masters and if they did not obey they would get beaten or whooped by their slave owners. Slaves had a hard time on the life on the plantation because they were brutally being mistreated. I will also be talking about their significance of their historical event and the issues surrounding it and the way it shaped history. During life on the plantation for slaves was not very easy because...
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...advancements that took place in the 19th century. Consequently, there were both many positive and negative effects that occurred as a result of these changes. However, these developments affected the North and the South in great ways. The differences between the two eventually caused a good amount of tension because they were moving in completely different directions with culture, political views, and economies. As a consequence of poor farming conditions and a mass amount of immigrants coming into America, the Northern states developed into an economy based on industry and manufacturing. The North was mountainous with rocky soil and rapid rivers. It had long cold winters and mild summers which were not suitable for cash crops such as tobacco, cotton, sugar, rice, etc. They had to focus heavily on industrialization due to the resources they had available to them, such as iron and coal that was abundant. Using these resources as an energy source, the North constructed factories that produced textiles, furniture, tools, etc. Since factories were producing a mass amount of goods in a short amount of time, they exported their goods to the West and South. Trade was easier in the North, due to the amount of canals and railroads that connected major cities and towns to one another. To keep these factories running, they needed unskilled workers who would monitor the machines, work for low wages and lengthy hours in hazardous conditions. Many of these factories used woman and child labor, and...
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...control. William Seward commented, "We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free." Lincoln was fully aware of the irony, but he did not want to antagonize the slave states loyal to the Union by setting their slaves free. The proclamation permitted black soldiers to fight for the Union. The impact that the cotton Gin had is that cotton gins still function with the same vital idea that it had when it was first invented. More services have been included to the original design though. Gins can desiccate the cotton, humidify it, arrange it, clean it and bale it into bundles. The cotton is ready to be sold when all this is done. Because cottons in modern society are used a lot in every country in the world, cotton gins have become important to the world. Cotton gin made cotton so beneficial that majority of the economic production of the South became reliant upon it. Meaning that they were also dependent upon the institution of slavery, plantation owners required slaves to choose the cotton from their massive...
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...to mortgage their slaves and buy stock in the C.A.P.L. (245). By owning stock in the company, these planters were allowed to borrow bank notes “of up to half the value of the mortgaged property” (246). These slave holders were then able to use this money to re-invest in their own plantations, such as buying more slaves, a cotton gin, etc., which furthered the cotton industry. But how did the C.A.P.L. essentially securitize these mortgages from the planters? The C.A.P.L. sold bonds “on the financial...
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...The Gilded age refers to the brief time in American history after the Civil War Restoration period. From 1877-1893, Americans were wealthy, hard working, and willing to do what they could to better the country. While some went and put thier money into stocks (which didn't help them in the long run) others put thier money towards the mills. One mill in Manchester, NH was one of these Gilded Age marvels. Through this era, there was a huge growth of different industries and a wave of immigrants marked this period in history (Morgan, 54). Because of the success of Western expansion, the gold rush in California and resources in Western North America, the demand for railroads led the way for the Gilded Age. The production of iron and steel rose dramatically because of improved technologies in factories and western resources like lumber, gold and silver increased the demand for improved transportation. There were mining operations that led to incredible profits and the owners of companies dealing with these were suddenly swimming in lots of money,many men used these new found riches to invest in the Mills that were in New England at the time. The Mill that is most interesting to me is the Merrimack River Mills in Manchester, NH. Growing up in Manchester only a mile from the mills has made me want to learn the history of this landmark and how the gilded age affected Manchester. In May 1807, Samuel Blodget completed a canal and lock system beside the Merrimack River at Derryfield....
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