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- Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
- What law reduced working hours for women and children and provided inspectors?
- Last appearance of the bubonic plague
- Wrote an essay that claims population out grows food production
- Crop rotation where one field is left alone
- Republicans who did not want to allow Southern states back into the Unionwithout punishment
- He perfected the blast furnace and used coal instead of charcoal to smelt iron
- He invented the seed drill to drive seeds into the ground in nice straight rows, less waste
- He penned on the wealth of nations to support capitalism
- Who were the two women that were dedicated to achieving women's suffrage?
- To have little government involvement in business and industry
- A powerful state-wide organization that served as the Democratic Party's army. Their goal was drive out Republicans and keep freedmen in check.
- He converted a steam engine for use on the water
- Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population
- The institution of slavery commonly used to man cotton and sugarcane plantations.
- A Northerner who came to the South for political or financial gain after the Civil War
- On the 14th of September, 1874, five thousand members of the White League attacked the New Orleans police. They took over the statehouse, armory, and downtown for three days, retreating before arrival of Federal troopsthat restored the elected government. No Insurgents were charged In the action. This was the last major event of violence stemming from the disputed 1872 gubernatorial election, after which Democrat john McEnery andRepublican William Pitt Kellogg both claimed victory.
- Who was the president of the Continental Congress. He signed his name the largest to the Declaration of Independence because he said, "he wanted King George to be able to read it without his glasses".
- 1 )gave all children a free public education in integrated schools 2}granted black men the right to vote 3)led to several Louisiana African Americans becoming congressmen and nearly 100 serving in the legislature
- ". .That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard toany previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude..."