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trans-atlantic slave trade
In January 2009 the directors of the project to create Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database began the African Origins Project -
cotton gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.it was made by eli whitney -
womens rights cult of domesticity and temperance movement
Although women had many moral obligations and duties in the home, church and community, they had few political and legal rights in the new republic Women were pushed to the sidelines as dependents of men, without the power to bring suit, make contracts, own property, or vote.The early women's rights movement built upon the principles and experiences of other efforts to promote social justice and to improve the human condition. Collectively these efforts are known as reform. Among these were the -
lowell mill girls
lowell mill girls were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusettsmill girl named Sarah Bagley. Born on a New Hampshire farm in. 1806, -
missouri compromise
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. -
irish immigration
In the middle half of the nineteenth century, more than one-half of the population of IRELAND emigrated to the United States This wave of immigration affected almost every city and almost every person in America. From 1820 to 1870 Over 750,000 people starved to death -
abolitinist john brown and harriet tubmen
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland in 1820; her birth name was Araminta Harriet Ross. As a child, she was beaten daily by those to whom she was “hired out” to do domestic work.Tubman defied an overseer’s order to restrain another field hand, and blocked a doorway so the man could escape. When the overseer threw a two-pound weight at her, it broke her skull and left her with lifetime seizures and narcolepsy John Brown called her ‘General Tubman -
alfred nobel dynomite
alfred nobel dynomite was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.who invented dynomite to find gold in rocks and also he made holes to make rail roads. -
the great migration
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities such as Chicago, Illiniois, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New York, New York. By World War II the migrants continued to move North but many of them headed west to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, California, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. -
the middle passage
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage.
