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The Invention Of The Cotton Gin
:cotton gin is a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber
:cotton, and a single device could produce up to fifty pounds
:advent of profitable mass cotton farming, the South became economically dependent on slavery -
The Embargo Act of 1807
Thomas Jefferson was involved.
The goal was to force Britain and France to respect.
They were engaged in a major war
Neither side wanted the other have american supplies. -
Uncle Tom's cabin
: Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary
: Christian love can overcome something as destructive
:300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain -
Kansas Nebraska Act
: The solution was a bill proposed in January 1854 by Senator
: transcontinental railroad had been discussed.
:the issues of the railroad and the repeal of the Missourri compromise -
John Brown's Raid
:John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist
:John Brown's plan seemed fairly straightforward:
:John Brown, who was white, and a group of his followers raided the Harpers Ferry Virginia arsenal -
The United States presidential election of 1860
The United States had been divided during the 1850s
Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Abraham Lincoln in the White House
U.S. and formed the Confederacy -
The Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay was involved the the Compromise of 1850
Defused a four-year political confrontation
Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico
The slave trade