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Every slave had to leave the plantation with a ticket, or writing or they will be whipped.
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Each Slave was counted as 3/5 of a free person for the purpose of taxation and representation.
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The cotton gin was created by Eli Whitney. The very first cotton gin mashines were used by slaves to seperate the cottonseed from the actual cotton faster than by hand. It could make 50 pounds a day of pure clean cotton. It is not known exactly what day it was invented.
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The Missouri compromise provides that the union lets main to be a free state and let Missouri in as a slave state to balance the slaves and free states.
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Congress finally decided that California would be admitted as free state. In other lands gained from mexico,they would let slavery.
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This was the compromise between southern slaves states and northern free states. This compromise made it a law to return found slaves back to there masters. If they were to escape from their masters were passed by the united states. Congress it was nicknamed "the bloodyhound law" after the House they led to track down run away slaves
