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After the War 1812, America had begun to start a new era of economy due to their relationship with England. With acts like the Embargo Act, which had ended commerce with England for several years even before the war, many important items that were normally received from England had to be obtained from local merchants. However, many efforts were made to overcome the scarcity of foreign goods by home manufacturers; and the help of industrial production in America became an important incentive for independent manufacturing. Numerous manufacturing establishments were founded, mostly in the Northern States, and the process of representing the United States as industrially independent of Europe progressed rapidly. During this time America still depended heavily on receiving goods from England to purchase. With commerce and trade with England at a standstill, production of such items as clothing became more important for manufacturing locally. Cotton was already a major crop grown around the South, but with the need for homeland production, the demand for cotton increased dramatically. More farms had to be started and more workers were needed. With the demand for cotton so high new ideas and plans had to be invented to make harvesting an