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**Theme:** type here **Topic:** type here **Free Response Question**: type here Introductory Paragraph **Setting:** The age of industrialization came during the early 1800s, and, with Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, the major crop in the deep south became cotton. **Basis for Analysis**: A labor force will always be evolving to keep up with consumer demand and a changing technological and economic landscape. **Partitions**: Slavery evolved because of technological advances, American entrepreneurship, and changing social attitudes toward slavery. **Thesis:** While slavery retained its legacy of exploitation, it became more efficient throughout American history because of a spirit of entrepreneurship among wealthy landowners.

**Partition 1:** Technology/Industrial Revolution __Textile Industry:__ John Kay- Flying Shuttle- Weavers could weave at a faster rate, increasing demand for cotton. James Hargreaves- Spinning Jenny- A hand powered machine to spin fibers into thread. This sparked an economic boom in the textile industry, and increased demand for cotton. Eli Whitney- Cotton Gin- Sped up the manufacturing of cotton, and made slavery less necessary for cleaning cotton

**Partition 2:** Entrepreneurship/Economic reasons People who migrated to America want to own land, not work on someone else's land- labor shortage The discovery of rice and indigo as a profitable crop in the deep south led to more labor needed in the south Indentured Servitude not economically viable anymore Slaves more easily exploited than indentured servants

** Partition 3: ** Social issues with slavery Many churches began to see slavery as immoral Pushed slavery into the deep south, causing a divide between slave states and non-slave states Slaves would to attempt escape northward The abolitionist movement went public and gained support in the north with the Liberty Party, etc

General Information: The age of industry was happening in Europe as well <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Britain outlawed slavery in 1833, the north was more connected to Britain and Europe by trade than the south <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">