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7 Cards in this Set
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Cotton Gin |
Originally designed by Eli Whitney in 1793-94 the cotton gin allowed the inexpensive processing of cotton |
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Black Belt |
The Cotton-growing region that was developed in the early 1800s stretching from Georgia through Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, named for its rich black soil. |
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Era of Good Feelings |
The period from 1817 to 1823 in which the decline of the Federalists enabled the Democratic-Republicans to govern in a spirit of seemingly nonpartisan harmony |
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Missouri Compromise |
A compromise in Congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state as well as prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory above 36°30° north latitude |
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Panic of 1819 |
The first major financial crisis. It was a collapse of the American economy that lasted until 1821. Transitioned to a more dynamic economy |
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Erie Canal |
The canal that linked the Hudson river and the great kakes and gave farmers new ways to be part of the global economic system of trade. |
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Wig Party |
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