In 1863‚ seeing the confederates oncoming to the North‚ The Congress decided to recruit more people to the army. Consequently‚ the Conscription Act led to the riots in New York City during 11-16 July 1963 that is known in history as the Draft Week. In fact‚ the uprising was a rebellion of the Irish immigrants against the black inhabitants of New York‚ which finally became one of the most destructive riots in the history of the city. Iver Bernstein‚ the researcher of the draft riots‚ claims: “The
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Cotton Gin The cotton gin affected the United States by improving cotton harvesting and therefore expanding farming for cotton mainly in the southern states. Many farmers increased the size of their fields and established cotton plantations. This expansion caused an economic boom but with it came an increase in slavery as slaves were needed to harvest the cotton. The increase of slavery caused the abolition movement in the north to get motivated to fight the increased slavery. The cotton gin started
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Alec Baliatico Mr. Trzepinska United States History 25 February 2013 The Cotton Gin The Cotton Gin was one of the great inventions of all time. It was the start to the Industrial Revolution and the many other impeccable inventions soon to come. It allows cotton fibers to easily be separated from their thorns. This allowed for much faster production of usable cotton than manual labor. The Cotton Gin was one of the first machines ever built that single handedly replaced the jobs of human beings
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Introduction Since the colonization of America‚ there have been tensions and confrontations between white settlers and Native Americans over territory and civilization. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830‚ allowing him to communicate with Native American tribal leaders in order to negotiate their voluntary relocation to Federal reservations west of the Mississippi River. When several tribes refused to relocate‚ the conflict turned violent and was conducted through the
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In the state of Georgia‚ Eli Whitney created the cotton gin in 1793. The cotton gin had positive and negative effects in the United States during the Industrial Revolution. The cotton gin changed the way cotton was processed and greatly affected the slave states. In the south‚ the cotton gin had positive and negative effects on the production of cotton. The cotton gin made processing cotton easier‚ faster‚ and more efficient. However‚ it also increased slavery and almost tore out nation apart
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In the 1850s‚ Southern America produced approximately seventy percent of the world’s cotton. However‚ this production would not have been possible if it wasn’t for the invention of the Cotton Gin. Since he was little‚ Eli Whitney‚ developed a passion towards being an inventor. He frequently worked in his father’s workshop and there he would take things apart and would put them back together. At the age of 24‚ he enrolled in college in order to become a lawyer. It was not long after when he found
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Cotton Gin In the late 1700’s many people were trying to figure out a way to remove the seeds from cotton because it was very time consuming and “labor was a slow [and] expensive process” (Shectman 65). In the 1740’s the people of India had created a machine called the churka (a sankrit word for a jerking motion) that separated the cotton seeds from the clean fiber. “The cotton was fed through the dual rollers‚ which grabbed the fiber tightly and pinched free the seeds. The seeds were trapped by
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The Benefits of the Cotton Gin The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney to clean cotton fibers from the seeds (cotton gin). It was an invention created to reduce work and make cotton production quicker (Cotton Gin). It caused great reduction in the time it took to clean cotton. The cotton gin could drastically reduce the time it took to clean the cotton fibers. “…the cotton gin was a machine that could clean the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton in one day‚ whereas previously a laborer
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Boston Port Act O. The Boston Port Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 31st‚ 1774. The person who was in charge of the British Parliament at the time‚ was King George III‚ who is upset about the Boston Tea Party occurring prior to The Boston Port Act. This document is a primary source‚ specifically‚ one of the parts of the Intolerable Acts‚ used to punish the colonists for their acts of disobedience toward the British Parliament. P. The Boston Port Act is‚ as stated in the first
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From the late 1800s to mid 1900s there were many Acts and restrictions for foreigners to come into the United States. The Immigration Act of 1924 was very important because it had many effects on immigration and in US population. There were three factors that probably influenced Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924. These three factors were due to ethnic control‚ economic issues‚ and political control. First of all‚ Americans wanted to stay "white"‚ they did not wanted aliens to come and
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