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Antebellum Period

By Laura_
  • industrial revolution

    industrial revolution
    ''The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.''
    The industrial revolution was basically the era of maufacturing like there was many facturies. This took a great part in spreading slavery.
  • sewing machine

    sewing machine
    the sewing machine was a machine that made sewing faster. before the sewing machine the only way to sew was with needle and thread. this benefited more the north.
  • cotton gin

    cotton gin
    an invention that was suppose to get rid of slavery or lessen slavery.But that obviously didn’t happen. instead slaver increased.it helped both the south and the north.
  • the women’s right movement

    the women’s right movement
    women took action . They were tired pf being stepped all over on.
  • Fredrick Duglass

    Fredrick Duglass
    Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, abolitionist, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement
  • missouri compromise

    missouri compromise
    The missouri compromise was a compromsie that basically stated that above the line was anti slaver and the lower side was pro slavery.
  • telegraph

    telegraph
    telegraph was a invention that helped people comunicate better and faster.it was more beneificial during the civil war.benefits both places.
  • potato famine

    potato famine
    the potato famine killed a lot of people... over a million men, women and children in Ireland and caused like another million to flee the country. They fleed over to the united states.
  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman.Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848..the objectuve was for women to be treated equally
  • lowell mill girls

    lowell mill girls
    farm girls and young women from New England were recruited to work in the factories in Lowell, Massachusetts.Mostly young because they were helping out there families.