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. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 enabled the cultivation of short-staple cotton in a wide variety of mainland areas leading to the development of large areas of the Deep South as cotton country in the 19th century Rice cultivation and tobacco were very labor-intensive in 1720 about 65% of South Carolina's population was enslaved. Planters (defined by historians in the Upper South as those who held 20 enslaved people or more) used enslaved workers to cultivate commodity crops They also worked in the artisanal trades on large plantations and in many southern port cities Backwoods subsistence farmers the later wave of settlers in the 18th century who settled along the Appalachian Mountains and backcountry seldom held enslaved people, The slave owners also argued that banning slavery in new states would upset what they saw as a delicate balance of free states and slave states They feared that ending this balance could lead to the domination of the federal government by the northern free states This led seven southern states to secede from the Union When the southern forces attacked a US Army installation at Fort Sumter the American Civil War began and four additional slave states seceded Northern leaders had viewed the slavery interests as a threat politically but with secession they viewed the prospect of a new Southern nation the Confederate States of America with control over the Mississippi River and parts of the West as politically unacceptable.

Washington's army reduced to 5,400 troops retreated through New Jersey and Howe broke off pursuit delaying his advance on Philadelphia and set up winter quarters in New York. Washington crossed the Delaware River into Pennsylvania where Lee's replacement John Sullivan joined him with 2,000 more troops the future of the Continental Army was in doubt for lack of supplies a harsh winter expiring enlistments and desertions Washington was disappointed that many New Jersey residents were Loyalists or skeptical about the prospect of independence. Nat Turner's slave rebellion, 7 Bibliography Interpol: Lyon Main articles: Age of Enlightenment American Enlightenment Liberalism in the United States and Republicanism in the United States, The capital city is usually but not always a primary target in a war as capturing it usually guarantees capture of much of the enemy government victory for the attacking forces or at the very least demoralization for the defeated forces. . US President John Tyler's administration suggested a tripartite pact that would settle the Oregon boundary dispute and provide for the cession of the port of San Francisco from Mexico Lord Aberdeen declined to participate but said Britain had no objection to U.S territorial acquisition there the British minister in Mexico Richard Pakenham wrote in 1841 to Lord Palmerston urging "to establish an English population in the magnificent Territory of Upper California" saying that "no part of the World offering greater natural advantages for the establishment of an English colony .. by all means desirable . that California once ceasing to belong to Mexico should not fall into the hands of any power but England . daring and adventurous speculators in the United States have already turned their thoughts in this direction." But by the time the letter reached London Sir Robert Peel's Tory government with its Little England policy had come to power and rejected the proposal as expensive and a potential source of conflict, Kalorama General Hospital View of the United States Capitol from the United States Supreme Court building, Further information: Lee Resolution Articles of Confederation Committee of Five and United States Declaration of Independence. 7.4 Lower Potomac River, Nat Turner's slave rebellion, Main articles: Dred Scott v Sandford and Freedom suits Nueces Strip. . A dark-haired bearded middle-aged man holding documents is seated among seven other men, The John A Wilson Building houses the offices of the mayor of Washington and the Council of the District of Columbia. .