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Cotton Gin patented
Cotton Gin was patented by Eli Whitney in 1794 -
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Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion
Summer of 1800
-50 armed slaves around Richmond
-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 Uprising
-Several hundred, poorly armed, slaves march on New Orleans
-U.S. Army troops and state militia stop the march
-More than 60 slaves died
-The heads of the leaders were posted on poles along the Mississippi River as a warning -
Erie Canal Completed
Was the most successful artificial waterway ,designed to link the western markets to the eastern manufacturing. It lead to the building of over 3,000 miles of canals by 1840 -
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Growing Urbanization ( the decline in slavery)
-The economy is better balanced
between agriculture, manufacturing
and trade
-The Upper South is becoming less tied
to the plantations and slavery at this time, so slave population makes up only half of the total percent it used to. -
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
-Turner, a literate field hand, believed
that he saw signs from heaven
calling for vengeance against
white oppressors
-Led a small band of followers
-Killed his owner the first day
-Killed 60 more white people
the following 2 days
-With the help of other slaves, a group of whites captured or killed most of Turner’s group
-Turner hides for 2 months before he is caught and executed along with 30 of his followers
-Panic stricken whites killed 100 other slaves -
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Edmund Ruffin Reforms
-Virginia planter -Promoted the use of Marl -Calcium rich seashell deposits -Neutralized the highly acidic and worn out soil -Called for farmers to plow deeper furrows, rotate crops and to upgrade their breeding stock. Known as the “Father of Soil Science” from his 1843-1860 activism -
Fugitive slave act
part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
