AMH 2010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Wilkes Booth, My American Cousin, Ku Klux Klan Titles And Vocabulary
15 Oct 2017
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Chapter: road to civil war: movie: miracle. Must watch: introduction: compromise of 1850, inception of the first of 1607 jamestown founded, as the northern economies started to develop it didn"t become a necessity. Industrial type of society in the north: in the south when you had cotton, tobacco, cotton and indigo. Power struggle between the north and south: congress is made up of house of representatives and senate. Combined there are 626 people in the legislation: senate is made up of 100 people; once it hits the majority the law is taken to the house of representative and then sent to the president. President has the power to veto the law or accept it: 1849 gold is discovered in california. Levi strauss made clothes for miners and discovered denim. California enters the union as a free state. There were 16 states in the free states and 15 in the south state therefore they had no power in the legislation.
