Antebellum Era

  • Spinnig Jenny

    The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 by James Hegreaves, the devuce reduce th amount of work needed to produce yarn with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once
  • Spinning Jenny

    Was created in 1764 by James Hargreaves.
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    spinning Jenny - Dinomite was invented

  • Cotton Gin

    The Cotton Gin was invented in the United States in 1793 by Eli Whitney
  • Modern Day slavery

  • Legeslative Action by Congress regarding slavery the MIssiouri Compromise

    Balance of power in congress between slave and free states in 1820 admittiting missiouri as a slave state in maine as a free state
  • Trans-Atlantic slave trade

    Europe traded goods for slaves in Africa and then sold the slaves to Americand the process took about 18 months.
  • Fredrik Douglas

    Douglas was a slave rgar would make really good speeches
  • Compromise of 1850

    During the Compromise of 1850 slave trade Washington DC was abolished , California entered the union as a free state, a territorial government was created in Utah
  • Elevator was invented

    The first elevator was put in a buildimng before Elisha Otiz invented his safe, steam powered elevaror
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    An 1854 bill that mandated ''popular sovereignty'' which allows settlers of a territory to decide wether slavery would be allowed within a new states border.
  • John Brown

    JOhn Bown was a heroe at one place and a terrorist at another place. John Brown killed many people. John got the death penalty due to all the lives he ended.
  • Dinomite was invented

    dinomite was invented by Alfred Noble, In May 7 1867 in England