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The Second Great Awakening was a Christian revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.
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He was 84 years old.
His funeral in Philadelphia attracted the largest crowd of mourners ever known. An estimated 20,000 people crowded around the Christ Church Burial Ground where he was buried beside his wife Deborah Read Rogers Franklin who had died sixteen years before him. -
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The First national census finds 3,929,214 persons eligible to be counted
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George Leile, a slave who in 1773 was the first African American licensed by the Baptists to preach in Georgia, played a part in the founding of the Savannah church by converting some of its early members. His initial licensing as a Baptist was to preach to slaves on plantations along the Savannah River, in Georgia and South Carolina.
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The first ten amendments (Bill of rights) go into effect
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin so that cotton seeds and "fluff" could be seperated
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President Washington died of pneumonia
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Lewis & Clark discover mouth of Columbia River
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Russians build Fort Rossiia (Ross) 90 miles north of San Francisco
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Alabama Fever was a land rush when many families moved to Alabama from Georgia and Tennessee as the demand for cotton started to grow larger.
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The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in the unorganized territory of the Great Plains and permitted it in Missouri and the Arkansas Territory
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Denmark Vesey was an African American slave brought to the United States from the Caribbean of Coromantee background. After purchasing his freedom, he planned what would have been one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States. Word of the plans was leaked, and at Charleston, South Carolina, authorities arrested the plot's leaders before the uprising could begin. Vesey and others were tried, convicted and executed. Although it was almost cer
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55–65 people, The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for several months afterward.
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Flush times was a series of sketches by Joseph G. Baldwin
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A gag rule is a rule that limits or forbids the raising, consideration or discussion of a particular topic by members of a legislative or decision-making body.
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The president died of pneumonia, which he got from his enagurall address becouse he did not wear a scarff
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There's G O L D in them thar hills! Invasion of California begins The gold rush begins!!!!
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Cocaine extracted from cocoa leaves, but has no legitimate use (ever!)
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The Impending Crisis of the South is a book that was a strong attack on slavery as inefficient and a barrier to the economic advancement of whites.
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There were four children in all -
Anna ("Bamie" or "Bye"), Theodore ("Teedie" to his family and very close friends. He hated to be called "Teddy"),
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Cotton is King is a speech that James Henry Hammond gave to the southerners
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