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Vermont Abolishes Slavery
The first state to abolish slavery. -
Constitutional Convention
They agreed to not do anything about slavery for 20 years. -
Cotton Gin
An invention that quickly produced cotton because it promoted slavery to tend cotton fields. -
Tariffs
A tax on exported goods to get the south to buy northern products. -
War of 1812
A war between America and Britain with Native American Allies. The southern Americans thought that it was a good idea, while the northerners opposed it. -
American Colonization Society
They set up a place in Africa for freed slaves to go to. -
Missouri Compromise
A compromise Henry Clay made that made the Missouri Compromise Line and made Missouri a slave state. -
Underground Railroad
A tunnel created by abolitionists to help slaves escape slavery and go to the north. -
Nat Turner
An abolitionist who killed many white people in order to stop slavery. -
Mexican American War
America gains texas and California. If they were free or slave states.