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Gabriel's Rebellion
A group of slaves not far from New Orleans seized cane knives and guns and marched to the city before militia stopped them. The rebelllion encouraged future rebellions. -
Demark Vesey
Demark Vesey was a former slave that bought his freedom, may have organized a plan to destroy Charleston, South Carolina. Evidence was brought to trail, but the trail was unfair. he was executed along with 34 other slaves. This gave the idea to more slaves to rebel. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Turner, a preacher, with a group of 80 slaves marched from farm to farm in Southhampton county Virgina, killing all the people that lived on them (most were women and children). Turner and 17 others were captured and executed. This rebellion struck fear into all whites across the south. The end results was Virgina, made slavery worse passing stricter laws (no preaching and teaching slaves to read). Other slave states followed, by 1830s slavery was very harsh. -
Letters on the equality of the Sexes
Sarah Grimke published letters on the equality of the Sexes in 1838, critic of slavery and gaining equality of the sexes as the title suggests. this book put ideas into people's head about equality of sexes. -
seneca falls convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Antony, and others wrote and published the Declaration of Sentiment (closely modeled to the Declaration of Independence.) Declaration was more radical, because it took on the entire patriarchal structure. -
population
4 million slaves in the US and in the South, made up 1/3 of total populaton. They relied heavily on slaves. -
Womens Christian Temperance Union
Womens greatest influence, was founded in 1874 and by 1890 it had 150,000 members. WTCU was the largest female organization in the US. The leader Frances Willard, embraced a broad reform agenda, pushing for womens right to vote, -
Hull House
The Hull House in Chicago, was co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Settlement houses became the incubators of the the new field of social work. Women played a huge part and Addams became an important spokesperson for progressive ideas. -
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progressive era
Was the high tide of womens rights and political activism. culminated in the ratification of the 19th amendment women, increased their autonomy and freedom in the burgeoning consumer marketplace. -
Margaret Sanger- Birth control
Sanger worked to educate the working class women about birth control. she was sentenced to prison in 1916 for opening a clinic in Brooklyn that gave our contraceptive devices to poor immigrant women. The fight over birth control is important because it put women in the front of debates about free speech in America. -
women in the workforce
in 1920, office workers and telephone operators made up 25% of the female workforce, while domestic servants were only 15%. This showed that women were starting to become important in the workforce and had to be recognized. Women were starting to change the normal duties of the women. -
bank failures
A wave of Bank failures began in Louisville then spreaded, when depositors lined up to take their money out before the banks went bankrupt. Banks called in loans and sold assets then credit froze up really destroying the economy. Frozen credit sytem meant less money was in circulation, this led to deflation. -
desegregating schools
it was a key goal in the Civil Rights Movement. the case Mendez V. Westminster the California supreme court ruled that Orange County, had to desegregate their schools. then Earl Warren signed an order to repeal all school segregation in the state. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery Alabama, then was arrested. this started the mongomery bus boycott that lasted a year -
101st Airbourne Division
Eisenhower sent the 101st Airbourne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to walk kids to school. they did for a year. After Faublus closed the schools but at least the Federal government showed that it wouldn't allow states to ignore court orders about the constitution. -
cars in America
80% of AMericans owned at least 1 car and 14% had 2 or more cars. car culture changed the way Americans lived and shopped.
