The Industrial Revolution started in the northeast and modernized The United States. In the New England state, there were more poor people than there were wealthy. In the southern states, people relied on farming to make a living. As most people know, tobacco was a cash crop and was widely purchased throughout the south. It was also imported and distributed in other parts of the country. What most people probably don 't know, is that white slave owners forced African-Americans to pick, shred, and dry the tobacco so it can be packaged and sold. Later on, as the idea, and then production of furniture came about, cotton became the new king. African-Americans were required to work fourteen to fifteen hours a day picking and brushing cotton. Soon