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APUSH Unit 3 Exam
Chapter 16-22
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12th Grade
12/08/2010
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Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
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-1793
-large scale production of cotton quickly
-caused cotton to be dominant crop in the South, beating tobacco, rice, and sugar
-caused more need for slavery
-the growth of the cotton industry caused a growth in the countries economic wealth
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
 Definition

-written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

-1852

-anti-slavery novel

-evils of slavery 

-Southerners were outraged

 
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Missouri Compromise
 Definition

 -Missouri was admitted as a slave state

-Maine was admitted as a free state

-slavery was not allowed above the 36°30' line (besides Missouri)

-both the North and the South gained and lost something in the compromise, therefore, neither was completely bitter on it

-lasted 34 years

 
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