Antebellum Timeline

By Marvin Sanchez

  • Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

    that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.

  • The Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney created the Cottton Gin.It wwas created in 1793.It helped the South take away the seed from the cotton faster.What peopel did in ten hours the Cotton Gin did it in one hour.

  • Frederick Douglass

    Fedrick Douglass was an African American social reform.He was a slavery and after escaping from slavery he became a leader for the abolitionist.

  • Lowell MIlls

    Lowell means that girls ahd top work in a big factory and only get pai 2 dollars a week

  • The Irish Immigration

    hroughout the Famine years, nearly a million Irish arrived in the United States. Famine immigrants were the first big wave of poor refugees ever to arrive in the U.S. and Americans were simply overwhelmed.

  • Seneca Falls convention

    Seneca was the first womens right convention.

  • Womans Right

    In the early 1800s, women were second-class citizens. Women were expected to restrict their sphere of interest to the home and the family. Women were not encouraged to obtain a real education or pursue a professional career. After marriage, women did not have the right to own their own property, keep their own wages, or sign a contract.

  • The Compromise of 1850

    The plan was set forth. The giants Calhoun, Webster, and Clay had spoken. Still the Congress debated the contentious issues well into the summer.

  • The First Great Migration

    The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States.

  • Middle Passage

    Middle Passage
    The Middle Passage was that people from africa were shiped to Alantic Slave Trade.Which caused millions of people to die before they made it to the slave trade place were they were going to trade them.