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The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Witt. It was created to make producing cotton easier.
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The Missouri Comprimise lasted from 1820 untill 1821. An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state. The Compromise drew an imaginary line at 36,30 north latitude this dividing the Louisiana Territory into two sections one north and one south.
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This was making California a free state but put stricter fugitive slave laws into effect in the north for the runaway slaves.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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Uncle Tom;s Cabin was written be Harriet Becher Stowe. She wrote this book to show the realties of working as a slave in the south. This shows how slavery really was.
