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Industrial revolution
The industrial revolution was a time when we replaced hand tools with machines. It took place between 1760 and lasted until around 1820. AN example of this is, people used to have to pick the seeds out of the cotton and during the industrial revolution they made the cotton gin. -
Industrial revolution
The industrial revolution last from 1760 to about 1820. This was a transitions from working with hand tools to know working with machines. An example would be when people used to have to pick the seeds out of cotton and during the industrial revolution they made the cotton gin. -
Sojourner Truth
Isabella Van Wagener was legally free July 4, 1827. Slavery was abolished in New York and Isabella being a deeply spiritual woman became a traveling preacher. She had a reputation for tenacity. Truth was not taught to read or write. -
Improving education
During the 1800s classrooms were not divided by grade therefore older and younger people were put together. In 1830 though Americans began to demand tax-supported public schools. In 1834 Pennsylvania established a tax supported public school system. The school was optional though. -
Virginia Debate
Governor of Virginia John Floyd wanted a law that abolished slavery. By January 1832 the state legislature was debating about it. The Virginia debate was over the further slavery of Virginia. The motion lost by a 73 to 58 vote. Mainly because the state legislature was balanced toward eastern slave holders rather than non- slave holders. -
William Lloyd garrison
William Lloyd garrison was a white radical abolitionist. He founded the New England Anti- Slavery Society in 1832. Whites who supported slavery absolutely hated William. He however did not care and did what he wanted to do -
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix was a reformer against the mentally ill. She was compelled by a personal experience into joining the movement on social reform. Dix was disgusted to find that most mentally ill people were housed in jails. In 1843 she sent her finding to mass. Who turned it into a law. During 1845-1852 nine southern states set up public hospitals for the mentally ill. -
Fredrick Douglas
Fredrick Douglas was one of the most famous African Americans in our history. In 1838 Fred worked as a ship caulker in Baltimore making top wages, he couldn't keep them though. Him and his owner got into an argument and he escaped. He then began reading "The liberator" a book written by William Garrison. Garrison hear about this and sponsored Douglas. Douglas broke with garrison is 1847 and began his own anti slavery newspaper. -
Seneca Falls Convention
in 1848 Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott held a women's right convention called "Seneca falls Convention". Nearly 300 women and men gathered at the Methodist church for the convention. They approved all parts of the declaration. The declaration included the right to vote as well as other rights. -
Cult of domesticity
The cult of domesticity basically said that women should stay at home and care for the house and their children. Roughly one in five white women had worked for wages a few years before they were married. About one in ten single white women worked outside the home and earning about half the pay of men, to do the same job. -
Slavery during the 1850s
Most slaves lived rurally during the 1850s. Many enslaved women and children worked the same jobs as men in southern factories. Urban slaves spent more time being watched by their owners. Fredrick Douglas wrote " a city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. He is much better fed and clothed and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to the salve on the plantation
