Blog DiscussionsEli Whitney invented the cotton gin which sped up cotton production. This invention along with other inventions helped speed up production of clothes and other products whcih made the price lower.Samuel Slater - Born in England. Migrated to New York. Started a factory that made different style of clothes.Main Causes of the Civil War - 1. The north was against slavery and the south was for it because they needed them for all the plantations. 2. Lincoln was elected president and the south knew that he was against slavery so the south decided to secede from the union. 3. The south passed the Fugitive Slave Act - if slaves escaped and fled to the north, the offered rewards if you turned them in. Many free slaves were also affected by this act because white people thought they were runaways.Abraham Lincoln - 16th president of the U.S. Lived in a one room cabin when he was a kid. His mom died from milk sickness when he was 9 years old. He slowly started to drift away from his father because his father didn't know much and he didn't like the lifestyle he was living. Only one of his children lived past 18. Lincoln was an abolitionist. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilks Booth while watching a play in Ford's Theatre.We continued watching America The Strory of Us.
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