Geography is a field of science that deals with studying the earth's surface, climate, continents, countries, people, industries, and resources. It has two branches: the physical geography and the human geography. Physical geography deals with studying the natural environment, its characteristics and how it works while the human geography deals with studying the people and their total interaction with the environment and their culture, history, traditions, and economy.
From 1750 onwards a new industry emerged in Britain - the production of cotton cloth. Wool production had previously been Britain's major industry, but cotton had one key advantage - machinery could process cotton fibres better than wool.
An engraving showing slaves picking cotton on a plantation in North America
As a result it was in cotton production that the industrial revolution began, particularly in and around Manchester. The cotton used was mostly imported from slave plantations. Slavery provided the raw material for industrial change and growth.
The growth of the Atlantic economy was an integral part of the growth of exports - for example manufactured cotton cloth was exported to Africa.
The Atlantic economy can be seen as the spark for the biggest change in modern economic history. The Atlantic economy in the 1700s was founded on slave labour.
They lost responsibility for some areas that they felt were hard to
manage, so these areas would now be developed but not using their own
budget. They were also glad about the fact there were now more
settlements between themselves and Spanish Florida, which many in South
Carolina viewed as a threat.
<span>They were nearly worthless by this time. With the numerous different types of money in circulation at the time and the valuation of this money at some 2.5% (1/40) their face value, the idea of having paper money was almost useless to the early American citizen.</span>
