Cotton could also be produced more cheaply ... Some effects of the Industrial Revolution could be seen as positive. Before the Industrial Revolution, employment was tied to the seasons.

Cotton became the foundation for the developing textile industry in New England, spurring the industrial revolution which transformed America in the 19th century. Progress has different meanings ...

Students (grades 5 - 8) "become" a boll of cotton. After researching U. S. geography and history from the earliest days of the American Industrial Revolution up to the Civil War, they relate ...

UNION COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - A Union County mother said her Porter Ridge Middle School student was asked to pick cotton during a lesson about the Industrial Revolution this week. The mother ...

UNION COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) - A North Carolina mother says her middle school student was asked to pick cotton during a lesson about the Industrial Revolution this week. The mother, who asked ...