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starts

  • increase in demand of cotton

  • cotton production increased

  • Eli Whitney makes cotton gin

  • nations first steam powered sawmill

  • importation of slaves in US becomes illegal

  • top 3 corn growing states all were in the SOuth

  • slave finds out faster way to dry out tobacco

  • entrepreneurs in Georgia began investing in cotton mills

  • US producing more than half world is of cotton

  • anderson owned tredegar iron works

  • young georgia man

  • cotton industry increases

  • more than 250,000 free africans lived in region

  • a billion punds of cotton

  • lucy marries