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One documentary that I watched on the History Channel talked about the Industrial Revolution. It was time of very dramatic change in social standings and how economies worked. For instance, the steam engine dramatically changed how some goods such as textiles were made. They could be produced faster, more cheaply, and produced anywhere so long as they could put up a factory there. Also, the fuel for the engines was constant and didn't require nature which was never constant in its power. Coal was very abundant and burned very hot to produce the heat to produce steam to drive the engines. Another invention that came from the United States was the cotton gin. The cotton gin could take the cotton seeds out of cotton that was picked by slaves on southern plantations faster and more effectively than the slaves doing it by hand. It also increased productivity which made cotton even more cheap and a common source for clothes-making factories.