This machine was simple in design yet extremely effective. The entire goal of the machine was to put in picked cotton and end up with seeded pure cotton. ... Someone, it didn't matter who because it took no talent, took a couple of pounds of raw cotton and fed it into the top of the machine. ... This machine allowed Southern planters to grow a variety of cotton short staple cotton--that was especially well suited to the climate of the Deep South. ... He decided he would build a machine that would clean cotton faster than it could be done by hand. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Slavery was the central source of escalating political tension in the 1850s. ... Sectionalism Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structure, customs and political values of the North and South. ... The fourth theory was advocated by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, one of state sovereignty, also known as the "Calhoun doctrine," named after the South Carolinian political theorist and statesman John C. ... National elections Beginning in the American Revolution and accelerating after the War of 1812, the people of the United States grew in their sense of country as ...

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Slavery was the central source of escalating political tension in the 1850s. ... Sectionalism Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structure, customs and political values of the North and South. ... The fourth theory was advocated by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, one of state sovereignty, also known as the "Calhoun doctrine," named after the South Carolinian political theorist and statesman John C. ... National Elections Beginning in the American Revolution and accelerating after the War of 1812, the people of the United States grew in their sense of country as ...

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• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School