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Beginning of Slavery
Slavery started a long time ago. The exact date is unknown but the year was 1619. The slaves that were kidnapped were African American. They were brought over by a Dutch Ship that carried 20 of them. -
Sewing Machine
The really started in 1755 in London when a German immigrant, Charles Weisenthal, took out a patent for a needle to be used for mechanical sewing. There was no mention of a machine to go with it, and another 34 years were to pass before Englishman Thomas Saint invented what is generally considered to be the first real sewing machine. -
Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny was made by a carpenter and it was made snd improved in the year 1764. It had help people to handle big loads of cotton and it had made people jobs easier. It had a wheel that can be twisted and it made the instrument run. -
Cotton Gin Invented
When the Cotton Gin was invented, it had helped slaves a bunch. The slaves would have spent 10 hours just taking out the seeds off one pile of cotton. As soon as the Cotton Gin was invented it actually helped slaves. It let the slaves have more time to do what they want. -
The Ban of Importing Slaves law
The government made a new law which was that s;aves can no longer be imported to America. It also was that a slave can not be free after they have been enslaved more than 10 year. Jefferson had signed this law. But some people rebeled. They had made a black market which they did not listen and still import slaves. -
The Missouri Comprimise
The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories. The compromise, devised by Henry Clay, was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820. It had balanced the power in congress. -
Abolitionist
People who tried to top the racial segregation and discrimination. They did not like the idea of this no more. They had thought taht they would be able to stop this. They attemted to not have this no more. -
Telegraph first invented
The person that invented the first telegraph was a person named Samual Morse. He had a design that was made in 1832. He worked on it ever since. The telegraph impacted the world very much. It had changed the world. It had helped people by sending messages even fatser. The telegraph could sent messages from a distance whick had helped a lot of people. -
Lowell Mill Girls
These women would prefer to call themselves factory girls. The age they had to be were 15-30 years old. Some young girls were hired also. They worked in a small room with the air poluted with cotton flying all around. -
Irish Immigration
The exact date is unknown but the year was 1846. These people shipped a ship to the US because the jobs in Ireland were bad. They thoght it would be better in the US but it wasnt. The first moment they stepped on land, they were being laughed and made fun of. They were turned to slaves like the black slaves. -
Women's Rights Movements
This was about how women had a thought that they did not have the same rights as men. This was an arguement that became famous by having a group of Women fighting for their rights. I lasted nearly 70 years. It ended in the year 1920 with they got their rights. -
Comprimise of 1850
This was made for the North and South. The main reason was about slave trading. Slavery was abolished in Washington D.C. The year 1850 had other laws made for example the fugitive Slave Act. -
Fugative Slave Act
This was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of slaves gathering and going to get power. It required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters.
