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Trans-Atlantic slave trade
It was also known as a triangular trade for two hundred years. It was the time period were they would trade slaves from other countries or states. It happened more in the south because that is where most slaves were at. -
Cottage Gin
It was a compact machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers, fatser than could be done by hands. The cotton gin was invented in 1793. Due to the cotton being processed more easily, Southern planters wanted to grow more cotton. So, they depended on slave labor for them to plant and pic cotton -
The middle passage
Two by two men and women were forced beneath to deck into the bowels of the slave ship.The packing was done as good as possible. -
Lowell Mill Girls
This mill was created by Francis Cabot Lowell. With this invention, all stages of cloth making were performed under one roof. Lowell's mill launched the factory system. Factory system was a system that brought manufacturing steps together in one place in order to create efficiency. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri wanted to become a slave state, but that meant that Congress would have more power because it'll make more slave states than free states. So the Missouri Compromise was created, which stated that states below and invisible line of Missouri would be slave states. If they were above the line, they wwould be a free stae. -
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The Cult of Domesticity
This was the rise of America of an ideology of feminine behavior and an ideal of women that has come to be known as the “Cult of True Womanhood” or “Cult of Domesticity.” Where there was a code which provided more for the middle-class families with newly acquired wealth and leisure, were defined. -
The Elevator
From about the middle of the 19th century, elevators were powered, often steam-operated, and were used for taking materials in factories, mines, and warehouses.It was basically built for King Luis XV connecting his apartment in Versailles with his mistress's, Madame de Chateauroux, whose workers were one floor above King Luis. -
Irish Immagration
The potato blight which was what destroyed the staple of the Irish diet produced famine. Hundreds of thousands of peasants were kicked out from their cottages and forced to immigrate--most to North America. After 1845 totals climbed; in 1849, almost 220,000 of the 300,000 immigrants (73%) went to U.S. In 1851 Ireland disclosed the overall impact of death,disease, and immigration. -
Seneca Falls Convention
At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y.;a woman’s rights convention–the first ever held in the United States–starts with almost 200 women that attended.The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention.As women, Mott and Stanton were at the convention floor, and the common cause that it arouse from in both of them was the motavation for the founding of the women’s rights movement in the U.S. -
John Brown
On October 16, 1859, John Brown and followers, black and white,attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The invasion was part of a bigger plan to ruin the slave system by freeing and arming slaves. The raiders were captured and John Brown was executed on December 2, 1859. The original, unique documents discussed here show John Brown’s beliefs and actions in the context of growing national divisions over slavery in the 1850s. -
Telegraph
It was developed by Samuel Morse and other unknown inventors. It revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. Not only did he help invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code that that set a set of dots in alphabetical order and make it easier to transmit anything. -
Harriet Tubman
A part of the stubborn legacy of Harriet Tubman was that no matter the things you face, keep going. She set goals and objectives that were always easy to get. Even if many around her thought the goals were outrages she always knew that they were achievable. At that time, she never took small and safe steps for fear of failure. She took giant steps with all challenges she faced and she succeeded where others have failed. -
The First Great Migration
The First Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the Southern United States, into the Northeast, Midwest, and West.
