The Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas

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What effect did the invention of the cotton gin have on cotton production?

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fewer workers were needed to produce cotton

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was elected to the U.S. Congress as the representative from east Texas

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John Reagan

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a tax on imported goods

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tariff

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when someone leaves a military post with permission and with no intention of returning

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desertion

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to withdraw from something, such as a nation

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secede

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ships that slip past a blockade to deliver goods

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blockade runner

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storehouses for weapons

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arsenal

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loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

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sectionalism

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having supreme authority and power

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supremacy

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idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government

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states' rights