Cotton Gin’s Contribution Eli Whitney was born in Westboro‚ Massachusetts on December 8‚ 1765. As a young boy he enjoyed taking things apart and then putting them back together. When he was young‚ he worked in a plantation in Georgia‚ tutoring children. He noticed slaves had trouble taking the seeds out of the cotton boll. He then had an idea for a device that could help out both slaves and plantation owners. The invention of the cotton gin‚ by Eli‚ had many big impacts in the south‚ on slavery
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1. George Washington (1789-1797) Neutrality Proclamation of 1763 stated that the U.S. would stay neutral and would not aid neither France or Great Britain Stayed neutral during French Revolution- Washington refused to take neither France nor Britain’s side during the war The First Cabinet: 1. John Adams- Vice President 2. Thomas Jefferson- Secretary of State 3. Edmund Randolph- Attorney General 4. Alexander Hamilton- Secretary of Treasury 5.Henry
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Period 4 Global Interactions c. 1450 to c. 1750 Key Concept 4.1. Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange I. In the context of the new global circulation of goods‚ there was an intensification of all existing regional trade networks that brought prosperity and economic disruption to the merchants and governments in the trading regions of the Indian Ocean‚ Mediterranean‚ Sahara and overland Eurasia. II. European technological developments in cartography and navigation built on previous
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• The original 13 colonies were divided into three geographic areas consisting of the New England‚ Middle and Southern colonies. The Georgia Colony was classified as one of the Southern Colonies. • James Oglethorpe was a British general‚ Member of Parliament‚ philanthropist‚ humanitarian‚ was the founder of the colony of Georgia in America in 1733. • He was a social reformer in England founding Georgia‚ after a grant from King George II‚ to resettle Britain’s poor‚ especially those in debtors’
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The Civil War was all the Northern States’ fault. The “issue” of slavery should not have bothered them in the first place. If someone had a problem with slavery the solution was simple: don’t own slaves. Instead‚ they tried meddling with slavery which lead to the Southern States’ secession and eventually‚ the Civil War. In my opinion‚ I think it all began with these new territories acquired from the Mexican-American war. The Northern States refused to allow slavery to enter this new land. Southern
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The causes and impacts on British North America and the United States during the war of 1812. Abstract This paper consists of three statements based on the causes and impacts on British North America and the United States war in 1812. The first section will basically be an introduction of the British North America and the United States war. It will cover the important dates and information’s. For instance‚ when it happened and where the actual battles occurred. The second section is mainly about
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AP US History Evolution: Federalists to Whigs America’s early history is marked with drastic changes in political situations and public opinions‚ leading to the inception and termination of various political parties. These parties came and went‚ but at any single moment in time‚ America’s government was controlled by one party‚ with a second vying for power. One such party was born out of the controversy over the adoption of the proposed Federal Constitution - the Federalist Party. It dominated
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John C. Calhoun was born in Abbeville‚ South Carolina on March 18th‚ 1782 and he supported his family whenever his father was ill when he was still a child. In 1807‚ John became a lawyer and was soon elected to congress in 1810 where he was openly a “war hawk” or someone who wanted to go to war with Great Britain for independence‚ and in 1812 he got his wish when the war of 1812 began. During the war‚ he raised troops so that he could support congress which made him a nationalist and he fought for
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The French and Indian War ensured the dominance of English-speaking peoples over North America and set the stage for the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). At the end of the war France lost all of her lands in present-day Canada to Britain. With the French threat in North America eliminated‚ Britain and its colonies could wrangle over the nature of the imperial relationship. In addition‚ many of the men who would later lead the Americans in their struggle against the British‚ George Washington
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For so long as America has existed as a country‚ there has been the ever-present idea of a warfare paradox when it comes to our involvement in conflicts. The clash between our ideals as a nation and what we do to further those ideals throughout the world will always be‚ to some extent‚ conflicting. Our Founding Fathers laid down the tenets of our land centuries ago‚ and through our course of trying to uphold those tenets‚ we have undoubtedly had complications I regards to conflicting ideals. The
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