Chapter 13

By Spartan1223
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    Chapter 13

  • production of cotton is about 2 million pounds

  • Eli Whitney perfects cotton gin

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture's Haitian revolution starts

  • Gabriel Prosser planned a rebellion

  • First steam powered sawmill built

  • Congress made bringing slaves to the US illegal

  • Denmark Vesey planned slave uprising

  • Nat Turner started Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Nat Turner led a group of slaves to kill slave holders and their families

  • Nat Turner died

  • a slave discovered a way to improve the drying process for tobacco

  • A young Georgia man wrote that he desired to be a farmer

  • James Henry Hammond declares "cotton is king"

  • production of cotton is about a billion pounds

  • More than 250,000 free African Americans lived in the South