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Jan 1, 1500
The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was the leg of the Atlantic slave trade that transported people from Africa to North America, South America and the Caribbean. It was called the Middle Passage because the slave trade was a form of Triangular trade; boats left Europe, went to Africa, then to America, and then returned to Europe. This impacted both the North and South. -
Jan 1, 1550
Trans-Atlantic Slave trade
The transatlantic slave trade, often known as the triangular trade, connected the economies of three continents. It is estimated that between 25 to 30 million people, men, women and children, were taken from their homes and sold as slaves in the different slave trading systems. In the transatlantic slave trade alone the estimate of those taken is believed to be approximately 17 million. Not counting those who died aboard the ships and in the course of wars and raids connected to to the trade. -
The Sewing Machine Invention
His invention consisted of a double pointed needle with an eye at one end. In 1790, the English inventor Thomas Saint invented the first sewing machine design, but he did not successfully advertise or market his invention. His machine was meant to be used on leather and canvas material. Impacted the North mostly. -
The Cotton Gin Invention
The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, picking cotton could take hours. One pound of cotton would take up to 10 hours. For the North the Cotton Gin saved a huge amount of time and increased not only money but slaves. By 1810 the number of slaves had shot up one million. -
Frederick Douglass
1818-1895
Frederick Douglass was abolistionist. He was a hero to the slaves. When he was six years old he became a slave. After a few years he realized it was his legacy to stops lavery. -
The Missouri Comprimise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to lesson or soften the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time they had 22 states, evenly divided into free states or slave states and granting Misssouri's request would upset the balance. Congress came to the desion to allow Missouri to be a slave state as long as maine became a free state. This impacted both the North and South -
Harriet Tubman
1822-1913
Harriet Tubman was an abolistionist who was part of the underground railroad. She was a brave remarkable women who was a runaway slave herself. Her legacy was to save slaves. -
Temperance Movement
Women led this movement because they saw and felt the effects
letters of the equality of the sexes. Also to abstain their husbands from alchol. It took place in America and impacted both the notth and south. -
Lowell Mill Girls Protest
On October 18 1836, the lowell mill girls began to protest because they would work for hours and not earn a lot of money. Women began to read, talk, and be heard. They eventually won the fight and went on to get better jobs. Some became teachers and some began to attend college. This imacted on the North because in the North they had these factories. Also they are called the Lowell Mill Girls because they worked in the factories in Lowell Massachusetts. -
The Telegraph Invention
The telegraph was created by Samuel Morse through 1830 to 1840 and developed in the US. The telegraph is a system for transmitting telegrams (messages) from a distance along wire. The helped both the North and the South because both of them used telegraphs. In 1844 Morse sent his first message. -
Irish Imigration
500,000 Irish had settled in America in the 1840's due to diseases and starvation in Ireland. The Irish also came because of the Potato Famine. Beginning in 1845 and lasting for six years, the potato famine killed over a million men, women and children in Ireland and caused another million to flee the country, Life in New York for the Irish was hard because the Americans took advantage of them. They lived in filthy gross boarding houses, they didn’t have comfortable rooms, Impacted the North, -
The Cult of domesticity
Cult of domesticity limited the women’s sphere of influence to the home family “true womanhood” held that women were designed exclusively for the roles of wife and mother and were expected to cultivate piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity in all their relations. Arguments of biological inferiority led to the idea that women were incapable of effectively participating in the realms of politics “Non-Market Values” Womens work provides no economic value. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than six million african americans from the south to the cities of the north. This impacted both the north and the south.
