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 ...

This activity is an excerpt from our curriculum packet, "Cotton, Cloth, and Conflict: The Meaning of Slavery in a Northern Textile ... offer anything of the kind is driven from the premises as a ...

Some entrepreneurs made fortunes from the new cotton industry, but many of the factory start-ups went bust. Success depended on a variety of factors, which you will encounter as you play the game.

Before the civil war, the plant brought great prosperity to the country accounting for more than half its exports. But that ...

They were sold off in droves. This created a Second Middle Passage, the second largest forced migration in America’s history. To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans ...

A fine bronze memorial shaped like a large bobbin commemorates this history at High Dam but not the world connections with American cotton production and the Slave Trade. Our bobbin connects us ...

500. In honor of their return to Arlington, let's look back on the Longhorns' lengthy history in the Cotton Bowl (the game, not the venue). The Longhorns' first appearance in the Cotton Bowl came ...