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The steam Engine
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Antebellum Timeline
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Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. William Wilberforce (1759–1833), politician and philanthropist who was a leader to abolish slave trade -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney creates a machine that makes it much easier to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber. -
Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa[1] were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. -
temperance movement
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Lowell Mill Girls
The "Mill Girls" (or "Factory Girls," as they called themselves) were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States.Francis Cabot Lowell -
The telegraph
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Irish immigration
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The compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War -
Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, abolitionist, writer, and statesman. -
John Brown
John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States -
The cult of domesticity
a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the nineteenth century in the United States and Great Britain.
