Industrial+Towns

=Industrial Towns and Railroads=

Railroads helped many towns grow in production, greatly with their industrial work. Take Concord for example: its population was under a thousand people and it couldn't make profit from its product, intill railroads came of course. Once North Carolina Railroad got reconstructed after the war cotton production, and the towns factory was revived. Farming came more popular in the town when farmers came from more than 50 miles to sell cotton, vegetables, and fruits. By the 1900s more than 4,000 people lived in Concord.

Cotton Mills
The mills were built before the Civil War hired many young women, since young men could make money more easily on a farm. When it started many kids were hired. Some were men in their 20's and some were just merely boys. They would usually take broken pieces of yarn and twist together the broken pieces of yarn. To go threw hours, girl children would often play games or make dolls out of the yarn and trade them with other girls. The mill paid them little in wage that was considered "family wage" which was just enough money for families to pay the bills. Many of the child laberors only went to schools for brief periods. North Carolina passed laws to restrict the use of child labor in 1913. The state also passed laws that education was needed for the children, but many mills ignored them.

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