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Cotton Gin
It is a machind that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up th process of removing seeds from cotton fibers
By the mid 19th century, cotton had became America leading export
The modern mechanical cotton gin was invented in the United States of America in 1793 by Eli Whitney -
The Embargo Act
The Embargo Act of 1807 was 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.
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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an 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.
Henry Clay was a leading congressman played a crucial role in brokering a two part solution known as the Missouri Compromise. -
The Tariff Abomination
Better known as the Tariff of Abonomination passed the House of Representatives, 105 to 94.
The tarrif sought to protect nothern and western agiculturall product from competition with foreign imports; however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England's industicalist. -
The Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crises between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington DC was abloished -
Uncle Tom
He was a writer of a book that gave a wide spread look at Abolishm and it gave ground work for the civil war and this became a conflict. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas- Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
The Act served to repeal to repeal the Missiouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36 -
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown and William Quantrill to see if Kansas would become free/ slave state and this was a conflict. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott is a slave tried to sue for his freedom. The courts showed that blacks weren't people. It ended as a conflict.
