The Great American book of Biography Illustrious Americans Their Lives And Gre
The Great American book of Biography Illustrious Americans Their Lives And Gre
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Clay. THE FAMOUS " MISSOURI COMPROMISE. " In March, 1818, a petition for the admission of Missouri into the Union was presented in Congress ; and then began that long and bitter struggle over slavery, which, after convulsing the country for nearly half a century, was finally ended on the banks of the Appomattox, in 1865. - " No sooner had the debate begun, " says Schurz, " than it became clear that the philosophical anti-slavery sentiment of the revolutionary period had entirely ceased to have ...any influence upon current thought in the South. The abolition of the foreign slave trade had not, as had been hoped, prepared the way for the abolition of slavery or weakened the slave interest in any sense. On the contrary, slavery had been immensely strengthened by an economic development making it more profitable than it ever had been before. The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, in 1793, had made the culture of cotton a very productive source of wealth. In 1800 the exportation of cotton from the United States was 19, 000, 000 pounds, valued at $5, 700, 000.
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