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A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
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The goal was to force Britain and France to respect American rights during the Napoleonic Wars.
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was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819.
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was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
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The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri.
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an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
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was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.
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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.
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Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party to power without the support of a single Southern state.
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was a site of a major political and military importance for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery.
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His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area.
