Peonage is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work
The American Civil War lasted from 1861-1865. Eleven states seceded from the union to form the Confederate States of America. While the Civil War was devastating for the United States in terms of human loss of life, it was also the event that caused the American states to finally become united. What were the major events that led to secession and the beginning of the Civil War? Here is a list of the top nine events that led progressively towards the Civil War listed in chronological order.
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In 1793, Eli Whitney invented a simple machine that influenced the history of the United States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South. The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney's cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls.
<span>The alliances formed as the Ottoman Empire started to weaken is B, Britain and smaller countries within the Ottoman empire. Britain and Ottoman formed an alliance and fought together with France and Kingdom of Sardine against the Russians in the 1853 War of Crimea.</span>
B. Patrick Henry was an anti-federalist
