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Spinning Jenny
The spinning Jenny allowed 8 pieces of yarn to be made with just one person using the machine.Before people would have to do one at a time.This benefited the South because less slaves had to work to get more things done.This was a positive affect. -
Cotten Gin
-The cotten gin was very helpful for slaves because of the work they can produced at a faster rate and time. The cotton gin was not validated until 1807. -
The Cult of Domesticity
-Cult of domesticity: Referes to everything within the home which is women.Limited the women’s sphere of influence to the home and 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. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the balance of power in congress between slave and free states. In 1820 Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state. The compromise was passed on March 3, 1820. The compromise was critized by many southeners and Northeners disapproved the compromised becasue it allowed the expansion of slavery and would not except the pass of thid compromise without protest. -
The Temperance Movement
-Temperance movement- abstain from alcohol, women led this movement because they saw and felt the effects of drinking first hand.
- when men would drink they would get agressive and sometimes hurt them.
- Women were not allowed to make decisions without their husband's permission. -
Telegraph
The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse between the 1830’s and 1840’s. And was improved by other inventors.People benefited from this invention because it allowed you to have long-distance communications.It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.This invention was used in the North and South. -
Frederick Douglass
-Frederick Douglass escaped with the help of Ana to the North
-He was an avid reader
-He went to a convention for anti-slavery
-HIs mom is harriet bailey
-HIs father was a white man and people said that he was his master
- his master was cruel and would hang his mom and hit her.
- At the convention he was surrounded by white people -
Irish Immigration
When the Irish arrived in the United States the Americans were overwhelmed because there was too many od them. Soon survival was a daily battle because there were toomany of them and not enough jobs or homes. Most of them settled in Boston, massachusets. In Boston they were not treated well or welcomed almost like they were not welcomed. They gave them the cheap jobs, in some places they even asked them not to come. -
Lowell Mill Girls
In this time period young women earned money for the first time, $2 every week. They worked in factories under a lot of pressure and control. They usually used that money to maintain their drunk dads or widowed mothers. -
John Brown
-terrorist of the south, killer of the north
-he’s revolutionary
-he wants to lead a slave rebellion
-he breaks in into buildings and has a small army
-he tries to kill all soldiers but they kill his sons and he is charged for treason and is executed december 2nd 1859
-the slaves did not join them because the slave owners had a lot of control over them and they were afraid
-terror would happen to any runaway, others would kill themselves so that they would not be slaves anymore.
