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Eli Whitney Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin is a mechanical device that separates the seeds from cotton. Originally factory workers had to hand pluck the seeds out, but with this invention production was more efficient and doubled. The US began to grow/supply ¾ of the world’s cotton supply which boosted their economy. Unfortunately, the invention also unintentionally preserved slavery because it is a labor device. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a new manufacturing process, primarily revolved around machinery and mass production. This revolution occurred in two phases, with one before and a larger one after the Civil War. America's economy greatly improved with a higher supply for trade and sale along with many new inventions. Without inventions during the Industrial Revolution, such as anestisa and the cotton gin, modern day America would most likely not be as technologically advanced. -
Monroe Doctrine
Stated by president James Monroe in front of Congress, under this doctrine, the US was to stop being subjects of European colonization. Although that is the major point of the doctrine, it also declares no interfering with European foreign affairs, no country regardless of Europe could colonize in Northern Hemisphere, and if gone against, the action would be seen as a hostile act against the US. The Monroe Doctrine is a defining moment of US foreign policy and of its long-standing tenets. -
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Nat Turner led free blacks and slaves in a slave rebellion in Southhampton County, Virginia. With death rates as high as 65, this is the largest number of fatalities in a slave rebellion in the South. And the state and white militia executed even more! Unfortunately, the rebellion did more harm then good. Turner was jailed then executed and white leaders made slave laws stricter. All in all, it played an important developmental role for the United States's antebellum slave society. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention held in Seneca Falls, NY, was the first women's rights convention held in the United States, that revolved around discussing social, civil, and religious rights of women. A document, the Decleration of Sentiments, was drafted during the convention that declared equal rights and social status for all women. -
Compromise of 1850
The issue and conflict of slavery had begun to threaten the survival of the US. As a solution, those who opposed and those pro-slavery agreed on 5 laws, known as the Compromise of 1850. Some of these laws were: Texas surrending its claim to New Mexico, California being admitted as a free state, the slave trade would be abolished in DC, etc. If it had preserved the US successfully, the Civil War would most likely not have happened completely altering US history.
