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The Growth of Cotton and the Expansion of Slavery
Explain how Eli Whitney's cotton gin entrenched the plantation system and expanded slavery across the South.
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Antebellum America: Expansion, Division, and the Road to Civil War
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Examine 19th-century American territorial and economic expansion, the growth of sectional divisions over slavery, and the political conflicts that led to the Civil War.
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