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cotton jin
The cotton gin was a very simple invention. First, the cotton bolls were put into the top of the machine. Next, slaves turn the handle, which turns the cotton through the wire teeth that combs out the seeds. Then the cotton is pulled out of the wire teeth and out of the cotton gin. Farmers were able to plant more cotton. -
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embargo act
The Embargo Act of 1807 imposed a general embargo that made any and all exports from the United States illegal. It was made by President Thomas Jefferson and enacted by Congress. The goal was to force Britain and France to respect American rights during the Napoleonic Wars. -
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missouri comprimse
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. -
tarrif of abomination
The Tariff of Abominations was the name given to the Tariff of 1828 by outraged southerners who felt the tax on imports was excessive and unfairly targeted their region of the country. -
comprimise
Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American (1846-48). War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. -
uncle toms cabin
uncles toms cabin is a 18th century novel that illistrated and descibed the imoral nature and travesty occuring in slavery. it was published in 1852 and lead northeners to fight aginst slavery -
bleeding kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery forces. -
kansas nebraska act
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dred scott case
dred scott was a slave that sued for his rights after living in a free teritory after his master died the state court deemed him a free man but the supreme court said that property can not sue and i quote"as a chair can not sue for its rights". -
john browns raid
john brown was a abolitinast who stormed the fedral armory harpreys farey in order to free slave his atemppet vas vutile but his cause and actions sparked a match which lead to the civil war -
election of 1860
this election was the turning point of the civil war lincoln was elected
