Factors Influencing Cotton Production From 1800 To 1860

When Japan and India began to mechanize their cotton industries between the 1880s and 1930s, several similarities and differences surfaced. Both Japan and India’s cotton yarn productions began to increase rapidly, workers in both countries faced similar poor working conditions, and the transaction of workers going from rural to urban areas were protruding. However, both countries contained a difference in the type of workers in the cotton industry workforce as well as the displacement of skilled Indian workers as opposed to Japanese workers. (Thesis) In the mechanization of the cotton industry, Japan and India similarly shared their ways of production in which they both had rapid growth with machine-made cotton between the 1880s and the 1930s

According to Eric Foner is his book, Give Me Liberty!, even though the market revolution and westward expansion occurred simultaneously in the North and the South, their combined effects heightened the nation’s sectional divisions. In some way, the most dynamic feature of the American economy wins the first thirty years of the nineteenth century was the rise of the Cotton Kingdom. It all started during the industrial revolution, which centered on factories producing cotton textiles with water-powered spinning and weaving machinery. All of these factories produced a massive demand for cotton.

As factories, foundries, and mills grew the demand for workers increased. As the word of jobs spread, ships brought European immigrants. The South’s economy was centered around agriculture. Industry did not develop in the South because there was not enough labor. Masters could earn more from growing cotton than from industry, so they didn’t want their slaves to work in factories.

This strengthens his argument. One statistic stated that America was producing two-thirds of the world’s cotton at this time. Then he explains that not only was cotton needed, but cotton goods were also becoming a booming industry. One thing that got in the way of this production was a tariff that existed to drive up the cost of British goods in America. This caused resentment in the South especially, because they used cheap clothing from Britain for their slaves.

During 1800-1848, the United States regions were shaped different due to technological and economic changes which changed labor relations in each region. The economy in the north was depended on manufacturing, whereas, the economy in the south was depended on agriculture. The northern and southern regions were significantly different from one another until the idea of cotton came into the picture. The two regions were shaped differently during this time period for various reasons.

In the south, the economy relied on the production of cotton so they could make and sell clothes. With the invention of the Cotton Gin, people in the south had brought in more slaves in order to produce more cotton. The North also produced cotton, they produced it in the Northwest. They had built mills to produce the cotton. The owners

A phrase commonly used to describe the economy in America during these time periods is “Cotton is King”. It was the first mass consumer commodity. It was also one of the world’s first luxury commodities, next to sugar and tobacco. Cotton also turned many black human beings into commodities themselves. Unfortunately, slavery was a key component in the production of cotton.

Therefore, to grow more cotton, there had to be more labor. So planters used slave labor to produce more cotton. As a result, cotton production grew along with the growth of slavery. Cotton then became the dominant source of wealth for the country. Cotton enriched southern farmers as well as Northern bankers,

The 19th century was an era of dramatic change in the lives of African Americans. By the early 1800s, cotton was the most profitable cash crop, and slave owners focused on clearing lands and securing laborers to proliferate cotton production. The lack of available, fertile land in coastal areas compelled the move into the southern interior, sparking a massive westward migration of planters and slaves. The demands and rewards of the "King Cotton" economy resulted in a fivefold population increase during the first six decades of the 19th century, but it kept the South an unsophisticated agricultural economy.

Cotton had become so useful that it had advanced some awful misperceptions in the late 1850s. The profit of having cotton made the southerners overconfident and aggressive. The heyday of the

With this new invention, a person could yield eight times as much cotton in one day versus the traditional method. It also made the Southern people more dependent on slavery than ever before. As more cotton could be produced in one day the need for slaves grew higher. No longer could the South due

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No matter your stance at the time, one thing became clear: socially, politically and economically, slavery was the fabric of American success and gave birth to the Old South as we know it today. At the center of the entire institution of slavery, and central to its defense, was the economic domination it provided a young country in international markets. In the early 19th century, cotton was a popular commodity and overtook sugar as the main crop produced by slave labor. The production of cotton became the nation’s top priority; America supplied ¾ of the cotton supply to the entire world.

Due to increased productivity, cotton became a cash crop in the South

Between 1800 and 1860 two major things changed within the country. The cash crops changed from tobacco and rice to the new money maker cotton. Along with the crops changing the slave trade grew to replace the economic short fall in the Chesapeake area. These changed occurred due to the supply and demand of commonly bought goods. Another contributing factor for the crops changing was the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 and the use of cotton in textile facilities.