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cotton gin
the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented in 1794 . It used a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through, while brushes continuously removed the loose cotton lint to prevent jams . the cotton gin was used in the the united states mostly in the south ,its important because it grew slavery in the south and it made it easier to clean cotton -
the Embargo Act
The Embargo Act made any EXports from the unitedstates illegal .Thomas Jefferson represented this action the congress enacted it . The purpose was to make britian and france to respect the American rights during the war . -
Missouri Compromise
submitted by Henry Clay, was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories . it stoped slavery in the lousisiana territory , except missouriThe Missouri Compromise was effectively repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, submitted to Congress by Stephen A. Douglas in January 1854 -
the Comprimise
was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850 .which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North .The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas, reduced sectional conflict. Controversy arose over the Fugitive Slave provision.The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic S -
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the Kansans - Newbraska
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory . Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois desighned this act , It was important because it decided if slavery would be allowed. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. Abolitionist John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas before his famed raid on Harpers Ferr -
the Dread scott case
Dred Scott was a slave who sought his freedom through the American legal system. The 1857 decision by the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case denied his plea, determining that no Negro, the term then used to describe anyone with African blood, was or could ever be a citizen.The Dred Scott case became a rallying point for them and contributed to the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860. -
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THE Election of 1860
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South Carolina secedes from the Inion
