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The cotton gin was invented in 1794 by Eli Whitley. It was a device that removed the seesa from cotton fiber.
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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by congress to defuse tthe sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admissions a in which slavery would be permitted
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The Tariff of abominations was designed to protect American industry from cheaper british commodities.
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Uncle Toms Cabin was a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It changed how Americans viewed slavery and the system that treated people as property,
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Bleeding Kansas is the term used to describe the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.
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The Kansas Nebraska act was an bill that mandated "popular sovereignty" allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed with in a new states borders.
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John Brown Raid was a raid led by John Brown. He led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harpers Ferry.
