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the embargo act
-The Embargo Act of 1807 imposed a general embargo that made any and all exports from the United States illegal. It was sponsored by President Thomas Jefferson and enacted by Congress.
-The goal was to force Britain and France to respect American rights during the Napoleonic Wars. -
The Missouri Compromise
-Effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
-At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
the invention of the cotton gin
-The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the United States of America in 1793. -
The tariff of abominations
- The Tariff of Abominations was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States -May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
