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| Name the first 16 presidents. |
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-Washington
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-Jefferson
-Madison
-Monroe
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-Jackson
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-Harrison
-Tyler
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| A cotton gin (short for cotton engine) is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job formerly performed by hand. The fibers are processed into cotton goods, and the seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil; if they are badly damaged, they are disposed of. The first modern industrial gin, created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793, 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. Larger, more complex, automated cotton gins remain a crucial part of the cotton industry today. |
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| Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.[1] Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States (regardless of whether Whitney intended that or not). Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost many profits in legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin. Thereafter, he turned his attention into securing contracts with the government in the manufacture of muskets for the newly formed continental army. He continued making arms and inventing until his death in 1825. |
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The Black Belt is a region of the Southern United States. Although the term originally described the prairies and dark soil of central Alabama and northeast Mississippi, it has long been used to describe a broad agricultural region in the American South characterized by a history of plantation agriculture in the nineteenth century and a high percentage of African Americans in the population.
As many as one million persons were originally taken there in a forced migration as enslaved laborers for the region's cotton plantations before the American Civil War. After several generations in the area, many stayed as rural workers, tenant farmers and sharecroppers after the war and Emancipation.
Because of the decline of family farms, the rural communities in the Black Belt commonly face acute poverty, rural exodus, inadequate education programs, low educational attainment, poor health care, substandard housing, and high levels of crime and unemployment. While African-American residents are disproportionately affected, these problems apply broadly to all ethnic groups in the Black Belt. The region and its boundaries have varying definitions, but it is generally considered a band through the center of the Deep South, although stretching from as far north as Delaware to as far west as eastern Texas. |
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Alabama Fever was a land rush when many families moved to Alabama from Georgia and Tennessee as the demand for cotton started to grow larger. These land owners were in search of good fertile land. Mostly farmers would get there before the land could be surveyed by the government to sell. In other words, people would simply find a spot build a house and start growing crops.
Later, the US government finally stepped in to take power and the initiative of establishing laws to sell and survey the land. The land was then auctioned off to the highest bidder. Some acres were sold anywhere from 10, 20, or a 100 dollars an acre. The land farther north was left for the poor farmers to pick over. They could get the land a lot cheaper; they would buy theirs at 2 dollars an acre. The less fortunate in some sense were more fortunate because they could buy more land for what the other wealthy bought 1 acre for at sale.
The Alabama Fever greatly affected the people moving and the government itself. The people were affected because so many moved at one time that if they were not there fast enough all the good fertile land would be picked over. The government was affected because so many got the land before it was surveyed so they were not charged to what it full value was at the time. |
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| Slavery attitudes in North and South |
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| Compare and contrast the North and the South in the period of 1793-1850. Address the economy and social aspects. |
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South- based on Cotton and the Antebellum system.
North- based on Manufacture and farming, in the Market revolution change occured |
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| Compare and contrast the experience of slaves on tobacco plantations in the 17th century with 19th century cotton plantations in the Deep South. What transformed them? |
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17th- brought over
19th- already here
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