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Cotton Gin Invented
It was revolutionized machine to speed the process of cotton.Eli Whitney invented it and the cotton Gin removed many barriers. -
Fugitive Slave Act
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Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion
There were 50 armed slaves around Richmond, They failed to gain control of a main road to Richmond. Someone tipped off the White authorities. Prosser and 25 of his followers were executed. -
German coast rising
Several hundred, poorly armed, slaves march on New Orleans. U.S> army stopped the March, over 60 slaves died. The heads of the leaders were posted on poles along the Mississippi River as a warning -
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The Erie Canal
The first and most successful of the artificial waterways. Designed to link the Western markets to the Eastern manufacturing. -
American Temperance society founded
Decrease the consumption of alcohol -
Sabbatarian Movement
movement that generally embraces a literal reading of the Sabbath commandment that provides for both worship and rest on the seventh day of the week. -
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Slavery declines in Upper South
The south is becoming less tied to to the plantations and slavery. Small farmers either didn't care or were opposed to slavery. n every decade after 1820 the internal slave trade drained off about 10% of the slaves in the Upper South. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Turner thought he saw signs from heaven calling for vengeance against white oppressors. Led some followers, killed his owner the first day, killed 60 more white people the following 2 days. With the help of slaves a group of whites captured Turner, he hides for 2 months until caught and executed with 30 others. (panic strikes whites killed 100 other slaves) -
New England Anti-slavery society founded
in Boston was organized as an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society -
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Black Hawk's war
brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader -
Texas becomes independent
Texan army defeated the Mexican army and then established there independence. -
Battle of the Alamo
Santa Anna refused to have Americans and their allies rise up against him. An army raised. -
Massachusetts school board established
Massachusetts legislature established the nation's first state board of education -
World Anti-slavery convention (London)
It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, largely on the initiative of the English Quaker Joseph Sturge -
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German/Irish immigration boom
4.2 million immigrants entered the US, the majority was from Ireland and Germany. From political and religious problems, Irish potato famine -
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Edmund Ruffin Reforms
Virginia planter. Neutralized the highly acidic and worn out soil. Called for farmers to plow deeper furrows, rotate crops, and to upgrade their breeding stock -
President Of James K. Polk
shared the expansionists visions of his fellow democrats. -
Mormons migrate to Utah
Found Utah appealing because the lack of white settlers and its isolate location. -
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Mexican-american war
also known as the Mexican war, President James Polk had the untied states and mexico fight, -
Seneca Falls convention
The first convention ever devoted to women's suffrage, or voting rights. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The U.S. gained Texas north of the Rio Grande, California, and New Mexico. U.S. agreed to pay the Mexican Government $15 million -
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California Gold rush
when gold was found in California. The news of it brought 300,000 people. -
Fort Laramie treaty
Tried to draw boundaries for the various tribes offering $50,000 a year for 50 years, -
The Gadsen Purchase
established the final borders of the lower 48 states -
"know nothing" party
The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the "Know Nothing" movement, was an American nativist political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s.