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Invention Of The Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney. He made it to grow the production of clean cotton. -
Missouri Compromise
An effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of missouri in late 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton Country, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. -
Tariff Of 1828
Involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. The crisis ensued after South Carilina declared that federal tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign bounderies of the state. -
Underground Railroad
Was a network of secret routs and safe houses used bt 19th century enslaves people of african descent in the U.S in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolishionists and allies who were sympathedic to their cause.