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The Great Migration
A ship named The White Lion would sail to Virginia carrying 20 african slaves along with them. The Great Migration was a period where the population grew from 450 to 4,000. However, there was also an extremely mortality rate due to disease, malnutrition, and war with Indians. Due to the high mortality rate, the colonies were in dire need of laborers leading to the future capturing of African's -
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
This major event was the beggining of over 35,000 voyages to Africa to retrive slaves and auction them for profit in America. The Trans-Atlantic event would begin with european traders who would venture to Africa in order to transport them to the Americas.This would also be taking place in other countrys such as the Caribbean's, Brazil, and Europe. -
The Spinning Jenny
In an unknown date of 1764 a man named James Hargreaves his invention would lead to what was called a wool revolution. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. It would impact the northern factories where women would turn the new wool into cloth making their job easier. -
The Cotton Gin
In March 19, 1794 a man named Eli Whitney created a machine that would boost the cotton production extraordinarily. This machine was called the cotton gin that was meant to lower the amount of work slaves would go through but only increased the demand of slaves in the south. The machine only made more plantations bootleg the actual machine leading to Whitney not being able to profit off it. -
The Lowell Girls
At the birth of the 18th century women would be granted a new breed of rights they have never benn given before. Factory owner Francis Lowell would hire women at the age reaching from 15 to 30 meaning he would only hire healthy and strong women. This would lead to the first time women would ever recive payment for their efforts reachong two dollars a week. This new breed of acceptance would impact women mainly in the north working for their family and loved ones. -
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Antebellum Timeline
This period was a time when slaves women and many other races were given cahnces to make a difference in other's lives leading to the civil war. -
Fredrick Douglass
Fredrick Douglass was born as a slave as a child when his mother was taken away to a factory. He later escaped as a boy to take refuge to the northern states. During his childhodd he was taught how to read or write by his master's wife. He also met William Lloyd Garrison a newspaper writer who would help him determine wether slaves would gain the freedom they had been pillaged of. His legacy would impact the south as he would paly a crucial role in leading to events of the civil war -
The Missouri compromise
At the date of March 3rd 1820 a bill was passed known as the Missouri Compromise which impacted the union. This compromise was made to balance the agreement to balance the free states and slave states. The bill was issued at congress to allow Missouri to be admitted as a slave state while making Maine a free state. It is also known that this bill banned slavery in the upnorth of Missouri being another extra compromise. -
Cult of Domesticity
The cult of Domesticity was created to create a political power that would affect women across the nation. This cult wanted to stereotype women into workers that are only useful for taking care of children at home, This cult also stated that women would also be able to produce Non Market Values such as love, caretaking, and unconditional emotions. -
The Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse the telegraph was made in order to send messages in morse code to people all across the country. With the use of wires set to send the signal this machine would allow people to communicate from many places. This machine would affect the entire nation allowing the southern to communicate with north involving buisness deals. -
The Temperance Movement
During the time of the Lowell mills women would try to gain political power by creating the Temperance Movement. This protest was of women trying to ban the drinking of alchohal as men would most likely be intoxicated when at home. This would lead to women and children being left and abused by the husband in which women couldn't divorce. -
The Irish Immagration
The irish ventured to America because of the deadly disease of irish potato blight which killed nearly 1 million irish people because potatoes were a cheap and staple part of irish diet leading to many eating these infected potatoes and becoming ill or dying. Many people took advantage of the incoming irish by selling them rent spaces in terrible homes of 9 to 11 foot spaces they called their home. People also sold the travelers with fake tickets on trains at double the actual price -
John Brown's Revolution
John Brown was a war hero in the north who would fight during the civil war. He had his belifes that every man was meant as his own and would die finding that future. He would take his sons to the south freeing slaves from plantations while arming them with weapons in preperations of revolt. -
The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was a stage in the triangular trade which would transport slaves, goods, and supplies to Europe or the United States. Slaves captured would be placed on boats to be transported to new york to auctioned for ownage. Most slaves were sold to plantation owners to be put on the fields in order to grow and harvest cash crops such as cotton or corn
