Civil War Timeline by McKenna Kelly https://padlet.com/mckelly1/dpwu4drvs44do6kz Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2022-05-19 14:54:11 UTC 2022-05-19 15:13:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f973.png 1787 The Constitution was written. Article one, section two of the Constitution of the United States declared that any person who was not free would be counted as three-fifths of a free individual for the purposes of determining congressional representation. mckelly1 https://padlet.com/mckelly1/dpwu4drvs44do6kz/wish/2191494425 2022-05-19 14:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mckelly1/dpwu4drvs44do6kz/wish/2191494425 1793 Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. A cotton gin is a machine that can separates cotton fibers from the seeds. This is much faster than separating by hand. mckelly1 https://padlet.com/mckelly1/dpwu4drvs44do6kz/wish/2191494614 2022-05-19 14:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mckelly1/dpwu4drvs44do6kz/wish/2191494614 1803-1848 The Westward Expansion began because of manifest destiny. Colonists thought they had a right to take over all the land in America mckelly1 https://padlet.com/mckelly1/dpwu4drvs44do6kz/wish/2191514926 2022-05-19 15:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mckelly1/dpwu4drvs44do6kz/wish/2191514926 1820 Missouri Compromise. The North and South worked together to create a balance between slave and non-slave states mckelly1 https://padlet.com/mckelly1/dpwu4drvs44do6kz/wish/2191523679 2022-05-19 15:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mckelly1/dpwu4drvs44do6kz/wish/2191523679