Creating Our Own Museums on the Industrial Revolution Cotton Industry

For this project each group learned about one part of the Industrial Revolution and the cotton industry. Here is an imagine of my groups project.

The title of our project helps us understand the impact that cotton had on slavery during the time. The cotton industry made slavery very popular at the time. They needed labor in the mills and they used slavery to get the labor. I thought it was very surprising to see how popular it was in the north sense most people think that slavery really only took place in the south. One of the charts states that there were more slaves in the north than there were in North Carolina. I believe that the most important thing you can take away from our project is that slavery is everywhere and can happen at any time. With new, great things comes old, terrible things. In 1820 the United States slave population greatly increased because of the industrial revolution. In the south there was a need for slaves to grow and harvest cotton for the factories in the north to spin the cotton.

Another groups project was titled Condemning the Innocent: child labor during the industrial revolution. During the Industrial Revolution there was need for more labor and children were the best option when it came to the hard jobs. The children worked in textile mills and in mines pulling loads to get money for their family.

Pollution of the Revolution was the title of another project. The pollution caused by the revolution was terrible, rivers were low with bad smells and disgusting colors such as muddy browns. The revolution was not good for the environment surrounding it; town streets were being flooded with polluted water and waste.

Steam Powered Transportation: Now we're getting somewhere was the title of another group's project. The title explains it all. When the steam engine was invented transportation speed and ability increased. The railroad was invented and boats ran faster and more efficiently.

The final group created a project called Spinning a City. The revolution in spinning looms created jobs for men and woman. The Spinning Jenny allowed rates to increase by allowing more thread to be spun at oonce. This was then put to use in textile mills everywhere.