The United States in the nineteenth century evolved from settling on the Atlantic coast in the seventeenth century all the way to the Pacific Coast. Some civilians from the late 1830s and 1840s believed slavery to be the primary cause of western expansion. While this may be true‚ it was not the primary reason. There were many reasons for the expansion that were equally as important and impactful as slavery. The annexation of new states would allow the United States to grow economically and industrially
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which relied completely on slavery. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin exploited this‚ seeing the introduction of over 3.9 million slaves to assist in cotton production. This saw the south production of cotton increase from 160 million pounds in 1820 to 2.3 billion pounds in 1860‚ a growth of 230%. With the south now able to produce cotton at much higher rates‚ increased demands worldwide were made‚ making the per capita wealth in the South $3‚978 compared to the North’s $2‚040. In response to this‚ the North
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an Englishmen‚ that wrote about knights in shining armor. This was between 1810 and 1820. The knights were chivalrous and rode horses. They may have not carried revolvers‚ but they certainly were much like the cowboys we know today. Stories of heroism and bravery that characterized the cowboy were influenced by dime novels from the 1860s. These dime novels were formula written and popularized cowboys. In the 1860s‚ according to Alan Brinkley‚ Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows invented the myth of a
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Case Study 03: Slavery Between 1830 and 1860 American southerns had switched their focus toward the cheap land and slave labor found in states such as Alabama and Mississippi. Southern economic prosperity derived from the demand for cotton and the advancement of the cotton gin. From 1820 to 1860 the South experienced a swift growth in slave populace and dependency. Regardless of the morality of slavery‚ owning slaves was a highly profitable business. Labor hours were extensive‚ training was minimum
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This is why many political leaders in the southern states thought they were being attacked by the northern states‚ especially by Lincoln and the Republican Party. One of the first compromises that had been accepted was the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Missouri Compromise was the effort of Missouri not only to become a state but to become a slave state also. This upset the balance between slave and non-slave states. “They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to
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1820 The Compromise in Missouri. In 1803‚ the Congress was obliged to come up with a policy to give way to the growth of slavery in the western region. Missouri’s request for statehood as a slave state sparked an unpleasant countrywide discussion. The Congress
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years 1854-1856. The early Republicans arose out of tradition regarding reform and economic policies. With the successful of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854‚ an act that stopped the terms in the Missouri Compromise and allowed slave agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery in the United States; concerning the extension of slavery into new territories. By February 1854‚ anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper Midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One
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In 1793‚ the American Eli Whitney invented a machine that was to completely change the course of the history of the United States‚ the cotton gin. From now on‚ the once tenuous task of separating the seed from the fibre of cotton would be accomplished much faster‚ hence considerably improving cotton production and most importantly rendering the culture of cotton on American soil a profitable business. As textile industry blossomed in Europe‚ the world demand for cotton rose steeply and America would
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Although cotton was not the only crop produced in the South-fortunes were made on sugar and rice in Louisiana and South Carolina-it quickly became the most important. With the aid of the cotton gin‚ the South produced more than 330‚000 bales annually by 1820. The dramatic increase of cotton planted and harvested each year was followed by a jump in the size of the slave population. The international slave trade ended in 1808 but southern planters greatly increased the number of slaves they had as the need
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because there was more land and it was more fertile. Cotton became a crucial component of the national economy. Cotton became an important export From the mid 1830s - 1860‚ cotton accounted for more than half the value of all exports in the nation. The westward movement Changes in land laws Land law of 1820 A national law that lowered the price of all land after the panic of 1819 Preemption Act of 1830 Squatters could stake out claims ahead of the land surveys and later get
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