USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Britain, the cotton industry was based in the Midlands, particularly Nottingham but also further north in Manchester, nicknamed ‘Cottonopolis’. In the late 1700’s the concentration of production and manufacturing took place in Lancashire, with mills popping up in Oldham and Bolton.

Detailed explanation-2: -By the mid-19th century, the United States supplied 61 percent of the world’s raw cotton, all of it grown in southern states. Textile mills in New England used raw cotton from the South to spin, dye, and eventually weave and print cotton fabric.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lombe’s Mill, viewed across the River Derwent, 18th century., England from 1718-21, was the first successful powered continuous production unit in the world, and the model for the factory concept later developed by Richard Arkwright and others in the Industrial Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Manchester and the towns surrounding the city were known as ‘Cottonopolis’. The city was the epicentre of the country’s cotton industry when Britain was responsible for eighty per cent of global cotton yarn and fabric production.