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HIST 1311 Cotton's Influence on America's Growth

  • Period: to

    Early experimentation in cotton uses

  • Calico ACT

    Calico ACT

    English Lawmakers feeling threatened by East India Fabrics attempt to restrict their importation the use of Cheaper Cotton Fabrics.
  • Cotton Into Cloth

    Cotton Into Cloth

    An attempt to work cotton into workable fabric is recorded.
    https://www.sailsinc.org/durfee/earl2.pdf
  • Period: to

    Early days of cotton manufacture

  • Inovation

    Inovation

    James Hargreaves Invents the Spinning Jenny. A device that aids in weaving cotton fabric.
    http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/large107855.html
  • Refinement

    Refinement

    Samuel Crompton refines the invention of several fabric weaving devices into the Spinning Mule.
  • Period: to

    Pre-Civil War Cotton Production

    The Birth of American Industrialization and the Rise of Americans Slave Trade.
  • Modern Weaving Comes to America.

    Modern Weaving Comes to America.

    Samuel Slater brings the secrets of the British Fabric Mills to American. Demand for Cotton increases.
  • American Ingenuity. Changes the World

    American Ingenuity. Changes the World

    Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. Revolutionizing not only the fabric industry but changes the cotton industry for the world.

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