Antebellum

By Brenda3460

  • The Middle Passage

    The Middle Passage
    Conditions were so rough many people committed suicide because of health or weather conditions. 20-25% people died. Africans were shiped to the New World because of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    The cotton gin was created to removed seds from cotton fibers more quickly and easily. The cotton Gin occured in the south. Eli Whitney invented this machine.This machine benifitted the South.

  • The Cult of Domesticity

    The Cult of Domesticity
    Cult of domesticity was a saying that women should stay at home and should not do any work outside of the home. This happened in the United States and Great Britian.

  • Lowell Mill Girls

    Lowell Mill Girls
    Woman earned money for the first time.they learning together to be educated. They were able to protest later on, for the first time women's voice was heard.

  • Temperance Movement

    Temperance Movement
    This event was cause because of people ( mostly men ) consuming too muxh alcohol. Women led because they saw and felt the effects of drinking.This began in Connecticut, Virginia and New York.

  • Immigration

    Immigration
    It all started because of the Potato Famine ( reason why they moved ) causing diseases and starving. They went to America because it was a free country, but America didn't want them here and didnt wanted them to have any rights. This event started in Boston then towards New York, spreading across America.

  • Elevator Saftey Brake

    Elevator Saftey Brake
    This machine helped by carefully transporting goods from one direction to another. It would make bringing goods up and down much easier.

  • Harriet Tubman legacy

    Harriet Tubman legacy
    Tubman wanted to end slavery. Later on, she helped John Brown to recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. She guided runaways to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

  • John Brown's legacy

    John Brown's legacy
    John Brown's legacy was that he believed If we rising against the goverment was the only way to remove the power of the society of slavery in the United States

  • The first great Migration

    The first great Migration
    there was a lot of disease people were being wiped out. The colonies were in need of laborers. African Americans moved from the South to the North, Midwest, and West.

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    This event balanced power of free and non-free states. Maine became a free state. Population 100000 was added to the Union as a slave. Slavery later became illegal.