Middle Colonies
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| Before the advent of industrial equipment, harvesting could be an enormous project, requiring several days of intense physical labor by both farmers and their livestock. Threshers and harvesters were originally powered by animals, with farmers walking beside or behind the animal to guide it through a field. A complicated array of leather straps distribute the weight of this thresher over a horse back. |
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| These are some of the tool the colonial Americans used in the farming. |
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| Cotton is one of the most important and versatile fibers used in industry today, but until the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, mass production of the crop was too difficult and time-consuming to be profitable. Invented by Eli Whitney, the gin was designed to separate raw cotton fibers from seeds and other foreign materials prior to baling and marketing. The cotton gin enabled one person to do the work previously done by 50 handpickers, and this efficiency spurred the rapid spread of cotton plantations throughout the South in the United States. The design remains virtually unchanged to the present day. |
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| This picture shows you a sermon in Delaware. |
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| Prior to France's defeat in the French and Indian War (1754-1763), Great Britain had 13 colonies in North America. Each colony was a separate entity with its own government. Intercolony ties were not created until events, such as the French and Indian War and conflicts with Great Britain, united the colonists. |
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