Around the World

This is a picture of our poster. We choose to make a "wheel" to represent a spinning wheel, Each of paragraphs spun so you could read the information right side up. 

                                                       

    The main idea for our poster was to focus in on cotton during the industrial revolution. The picture to the far right was our inspiration for our title. We chose "Behind the Scenes" because slaves were really the people who did all the hard work (planting, harvesting the cotton, working in mills), the factories just got the money for it. Cotton kept being demanded during the industrial revolution, more and more slaves were needed. Between 1820 and 1840, a million more slaves had to work in textiles and mills. We had multiple sources including a picture of imports and export routes for cotton trading ships. The ships didn't only go to America, they went to Britain India and Asia. This made it clear to see how cotton was demanded and many people relied on it. Another source was a U.S. statistics chart to show the growth of slavery throughout the states. During the industrial revolution, between 1820 and 1840, more than a million slaves were needed for factories, mills, and picking cotton in fields. Another source we had was a picture of a Spinning Frame. This showed how big the machines were; eventually the machines had to be put in factories because they were to large to fit in houses. Each of these sources showed how cotton basically affected the whole world. Millions of peoples jobs were picking cotton, working in mills, or owning factories. But also this was revolutionary because cloth production increased so much and helped make more clothes efficiently and faster. If someone were to see our poster I would hope they leave knowing how big cotton not only affected america, but the whole world.

      Group D's title was called "Stolen Childhood"; I thought this title fit perfectly into their topic of how young kids were forced to work in mills. From there poster, i found out 49.9% of children during the 1800s worked in Mills before the age of ten. I found this extremely sad because when you are that young you should be enjoying your childhood, not being laborers.
     Progress Has a Price had a great set up to their poster! Each of their paragraphs and pictures were under flaps of paper, which represents a factory building. This made it more interesting to read the information given because it was more hand on than the other groups.

As you can see above, theses are the windows which had information beneath.

    After reading group C's poster i realized how much the steam engine impacted the industrial revolution. It helped produce resources like iron, but also it helped transport goods, making trade a much easier process.
      Group A, which was titled Tearing Down Families, had a poster about technology on weaving. Before, i didn't know how dangerous having spinning wheels in houses were; the wheels would cause many injuries, up to taking off limbs. Plus, i liked their title because throughout the poster they said how weaving started off in homes, but the technology got to big ad the machines had to be put in factories.