The people of Virginia couldn’t grow enough of it, but didn’t resort to slavery right away. Slaves were few in the area, only a few that were bought there from the Caribbean, where they were often used for sugar cane. With the increasing demand for tobacco, the southern colonies needed a bigger labor force. Farmers and indentured servants couldn’t keep up with the demand for tobacco. Slaves were very successful for growing sugar cane, so eventually the southern colonies called for them to be bought over.
You dare not make war on cotton; no power on earth dares to make war upon it, Cotton is king.” (Boyer et al. 351). But cotton is very hard to harvest, before the invention of the cotton gin, it takes one slave a day to clean one pound of cotton. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin soon changed that, it allows slaves to be much more productive. The cotton gin did not only change the output of cotton in the south it also changed the whole entire country.
Cotton was needed around the world because of the invention of the spinning machine. There was a great need for workers, to work the fields and gin the cotton, thus more slaves were needed. This made life difficult for the slaves. Slaves were worth more money, and the whites’ attitudes changed toward the slaves and there was a decline of freed slaves after 1800. Therefore the slave population grew.
Known also as Black Tuesday, October 29th left stockholders shattered with recorded losses reaching $40 billion dollars (Kelly, n.d.). Many banks and financial institutions began collapsing which led to irretrievable, uninsured deposits and savings. Fearing further loss, people began spending less which led to a decrease in production and an increase in unemployment. As companies began to fail, the government devised the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in order to protect American businesses. The Tariff placed high taxes on imports leading to a decline in international trade.
How do we take responsibility for ourselves or others? In the short story, “The Veldt”, the house takes responsibility for the family and not the parents. Since they let this happen, the children ended up disobeying them and the parents need to learn from that in order to keep control and restore balance into their life. In the end, it is the parent’s faults that they let their control slowly slip away and let the children have freedom in the nursery. Since they let their responsibility go, the house replaced the parents which made the children feel that the house is their parents.
Plantations were a big part of the economy in the South because that’s where they grew their cotton, and without slaves, the plantations would die. The economy was a cause in the Civil War because the North and South started to realize who wanted slaves and who didn’t. Another important cause of the Civil War was conflict between the North and the South about the issue of slavery. Slavery was a big issue in the South, whereas the North yearned for the abolish of slave labor. According to Document 1, Railroads were slim in the South, for the reason that slaves would have an easy way to escape.
The Cotton Gin The cotton gin, one of the most important inventions for the south. It all started a long time ago when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The problem with picking the cotton gin was slaves had to separate the cotton from its seed which was difficult. Even though the Cotton Gin was created to make slave labor easier it counter acted. In my opinon without the cotton gin slavery might not have lasted as long as it did.
America Transformed Timeline and Paper HIS/110 January 31, 2011 America Transformed Timeline and Paper The industrialization of America contributed to the economic development of the country in many, many ways. Firstly, we need to define industrialization, which usually refers to a change from home and hand production to machine and factory production. The invention of water-powered spinning and weaving machines greatly increased production of material. The cotton gin, which was invented by Eli Whitney in 1794, greatly increased the cultivation of cotton in the south. When steam power replaced water power, industries and factories arose, creating industrialized areas which attracted more and more people with the promise of paying jobs.
The invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney revolutionized the economy of the plantation (Jones et al. 220). With increase demand of cotton, came the increase of production, which required larger fields for planting and demanded more slaves to work the plantation. The institution of slavery became an important economic element that the Southern states needed to protect.
It gained a great deal of criticism from the Democratic-Republicans. The two factions took a strong defense to whether the Sedition Act was justifiable by the Constitution or not. Federalist Congressman Allen defended the Sedition Act by condemning Americans for their acts of libel and “most shameless falsehoods against the representatives of the people.” Allen stated that “freedom of the press and opinions was never understood to give the right of publishing falsehoods and slanders, nor of exciting sedition, insurrection, and slaughter…” (Doc. 6). A Democratic-Republican supporter George Hay of Philadelphia argued that any kind of legislation against a protected freedom, in this case freedom of the press and opinion, is “extremely forbidden by the constitution” (Doc.