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middle passage
triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials -
steem engine
james watt was a scottish inventor and mecanical engineer. when he was looking for a job at university of glasgow he was assigned the task of reparing a steem engine. in 1769 watts enginee beacame the most dominater for all the steem engines and it heled bring the industrial revolution. -
the cotten gin
in 1794 eli whitney created the cotten gin, a machine that incresed the prosses of removing the seed from the cotten. his invention alowed south planter to expsand slavery. -
Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries.West Africans from the central and western parts of the continent sold by West Africans to Western European slave traders, or by direct European capture to the Americas. -
Missouri compromise
The Missouri compromisewas a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country western territory.The compromise, by Henry Clay, was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820. -
Lowell Mill Girls
the mill girls were females who cam to work in the corporation in lowell massachusetts. the workers initially recruted girl of ages of 15 and 30, also there couldof beengirls at the age of 13. by 1840 the textile mills had recrutied over 8,000 womes that came to make seventy fivd percent. -
the great migration
the Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern industrial cities; and, after a lull during the Great Depression
