History of the United States

The passage of the Married Women's Property Act resulted in improvement of women's rights in New York.

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Whitney's cotton gin created an easy way to pick the seed from the cotton. Once this was possible cotton became a cash crop and it was necessary to be picked far more to keep up with the ability to de-seed it. This in turn led to the need of more people (slaves) to pick the cotton.

whether women should be allowed to join in the men's business meetings.

expansionists used the term "manifest destiny" to justify what belief?

abolitionists argued that slavery was morally wrong

They threatened to separate slaves from their family members. Overseers also often used physical violence on disobedient slaves.

they had been born in the U.S. and considered it home.

women were supposed to influence their husbands and raise patriotic children

Urban white workers and wealthy industrialists from the North supported the South in its resistance to abolition.

to encourage migration and free blacks to africa