History Words Chapter 7 Flashcards
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Cotten gin
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Separates seeds from Cotten
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Mill
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A machine designed to separate material such a grain
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Soil exhaustion
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The overuse of soil
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Sectionalism
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Loyalty to local interest
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Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820
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Act in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state
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Popular Sovereignty
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The pre civil war
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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1854 law crating territories of Kansas
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Three-Fifths Compromise
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Created with the construction in 1778
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Economy
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The way people use resources to make a living
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Middle Passage
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The journey lasting 3 mouths of slave ships
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Slave code
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Laws controlling treatment of slaves