AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Cotton Gin, Redneck, Cornmeal
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Urban infrastructure could not handle the influx of people: causing wealthy whites to move to suburbia. Those who flourished economically deserved what they have. Poor began to celebrate the ills of society: wife beating, drinking, fighting, whore mongering. Class warfare allowed for public services: prison invented to help rehabilitate crap people, education to help take away children for 8 hours a day from their shitty parents, police, fire departments. General idea: many social services that we know today are products of class warfare in the 19th century. Our world is a reflection of their world. Cotton gin invented by eli whitney: separates seed from cotton. Cotton gin allowed for farm economy to boom cotton now becomes a very profitable cotton. Southern economy is largely built on production of cotton. Virginia originally a tobacco based economy state starts to change. Northern society wouldn"t have grown without cotton : spearheading industrialization.