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Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin in 1794 which helped increase the production of cotton. It helped speed up removing seeds from cotton fibers.
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The Embargo Act was passed by Congress and forbid any international trade to and from American ports. It made illegal and all exports from the United States.
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The Missouri Compromise was a issue about pro slavery and anti slavery factions within the Congress and in around the world. It had many people upset about the deicsions that were going to be made.
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The Tariff of Abnomation was passed to reduce the existing tariffs that was caused my earlier conflicts. It was also to help protect industry in the northern United States.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a set of laws that were passed to settle the dispute between pro slavery and anti slavery and make an agreement that would sastify both sides.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is a anti slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The main characters are Uncle Tom, Eliza, Eva, and Simon Legree.
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The Kansas- Nebraksa Act was a bill that aloowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be aloowed within that state.
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery during the settling of the Kansas territory.
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Dred Scott was a slave who lived in a free state before he returned to Missouri which was a slave state. But the courts did not decide in his favor.
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John Brown let an army into a small of of Harpers Ferry Virgina. His plan was to orgainze a slave rebellion in the South. He fired on the federal complex and had and gathered up more slaves.
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the Election of 1860 really focused on the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. This broke the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Union Party appeared.
