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Antebellum Notes

  • Trans Atlantic slave trade

    Part of the continent sold on west african.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin.The cotton gin reduced the amount of labour required to produce cotton in the United States while increasing production. The yield of raw cotton doubled each decade after 1800 as other industrial development raised the demand for cotton. It was invented in 1793 and patented in 1794. The south made slaves work harder.
  • Abolitionist: John Brown

    Abolitionist: John Brown
    John Brown was an abolitionist who wanted to free the slaves. He had sons 11 sons who wanted to help him free the slaves. He got hanged and his sons died.
  • Lowell Mill Girls

    Lowell Mill Girls
    The Lowell Mill Girls were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of propertied New England farmers, between the ages of 15 and 30. They earned their money which was not common at the time.
  • Legislative Actions:Missouri Compromise

    Legislative Actions:Missouri Compromise
    The Missouri Compromise was an agreement between the North and the South and passed by Congress in 1820 that allowed Missouri to be admitted as the 24th state in 1821.
  • Abolitionists:Harriet Tubman

    Abolitionists:Harriet Tubman
    She helped slaves escape from their owners. She inspired generations of African Americans struggling for equality and civil rights. She escaped from her boss at 1849 and started freeing people.
  • The Seneca Falls Convention

    The Seneca Falls Convention
    The Seneca Falls Convention, was an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York over two days, July 19–20, 1848.
  • The middle Passage

    it was a stage of the triangle passage.
  • Great Migration

    It wss a movement of 6,000,000 African Americans in 1910-1970. The date isnt exactly known.