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Antebellum Period
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Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny lowered the amount of work needed to produce yarn and a worker could use 8 or more spinning jennies at once. The spinning jenny was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves. The spinning jenny created lots more textile factories which means that it created many more jobs. It was used in both the North and the South but the factories opened up in the North. In the South farmers can herd sheep and use the wool for the textile factory. -
Temperance Movement
This movement was created by women to get rid of alcohol, for it caused their husbands to act violent, and lose their jobs or family.
This occured in the early 1800's. Important women involved in this movement Susan B. Anthony, Eliabeth Cady Stanton and Carrie Nation. -
Cult of Domesticity
Women during the 1800's were to give their kids moral and religious education. The did not have rights just like balck people and they were not well treated. -
William Lloyd Garrison
He was an american abolitionist, social reformer and journalist. He was famous for his newspaper, "The Liberator". He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society and he also supported women. -
Adams-Onis Treaty
This treaty is where Spain gave Florida for $5,000,000. It also reonounced any claims on Texas. -
Missouri Compromise
The north and south couldn't agree whether Maine or Missouri should be slave states or free so they created the Missouri Compromise. I made a border of the latitude 36˚ 30' in the Louisiana Territory. Any states above that would be seen as free states and any under as slave states. Maine was a free state while Missouri turned into a slaved state. -
Whig Party
An American political party that was made to go against president Andrew Jackson and the Democrats. They were for the national bank, protective tarrifs, and federal aid for internal improvements. -
Bank Coflict
Jackson believe that the Bank had too much money and power, so he vetoed the second bank and created pet banks. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This movement was led by Nat Turner, he created a slave rebellion in Virginia. Total of deaths as 55-65 white deaths. This caused a widespread of fear for slave owners, which made them be more aggressive with heir slaves. -
Manifest Destiny
In the 1840's, there were many people who believed that the U.S. was ment to be from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, in other words they thought that they should expand the country. -
Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglas was an escaped slave, who later became leader of the abolitionist movement. He published the famous North Star in the early 1830s. He wrote an autobiography called, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. which was published in 1845. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
An agreement between President Polk and the Mexican government for Mexico to cede California and New Mexico to the US and that the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas. With this, it officially ended the Mexican War,which gave the USTexas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million -
Seneca Falls Convention
A convention that took place in New York. It lasted two days and women would mimic the Declaration of Independance to gain the same rights as men, especially the right to vote. This started the feminist movement. Major roles were played by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Suzan B. Anthony.