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The 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. At least 10 million Africans were enslaved and transported to Europe and the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries as part of the Atlantic slave trade. The slave trade was brutal and horrific, and the enslavement of Africans was cruel. It impact Africa. -
The middle passage
The Middle Passage was the leg of the Atlantic slave trade that transported people from Africa to North America, South America. Men and women were separated, with men usually placed toward the vessel's bow and women toward the stern. The men were chained together and forced to lie shoulder to shoulder, while women were usually left unchained. During the voyage, the enslaved Africans were typically fed only once or twice a day and brought on deck for limited times. -
Effects of Cotting Gin
The cotting gin speed it up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America’s leading export.In the South, cotton plantations were very profitable. -
Cult of domesticity
Women and men naturally suited to separate spheres (home vs work) Creates ideas about female vs male “nature”. Industrial revolution separate men & women’s work, disrupt families
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Lowell Mills Girls
The Lowell Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts was often held up as a model industrial workplace in early nineteenth-century America. -
The First Great Migration
As people from the Upper South were sold into the domestic slave trade. But there was also a voluntary migration of runaways, and of free African Americans leaving the South for a perceived better, less restricted life in the Northern states.
In the North, they clustered in small communities in the larger cities. This Impacted the South and North mostly the South -
The telegraph
The telegraph worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. Samuel morse was the one who invented the telegraph. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass tried to escape from slavery twice before he succeeded. he became a leader of the abolitionist movement -
immigration
The Irish people was treated the same as a black slave, About 650,000 Irish immigrants arrived in New York alone. 60 percent of children born to Irish immigrants in Boston died before the age of six. Adult immigrants lived an average of only six AZ after their arrival in the United States. Beginning in 1845 and lasting for six years, the potato famine killed over a million men, women and children in Ireland and caused another million to flee the country. -
The sewing machine
Elias Howe invented the first American sewing machine in 1846. The sewing machine was created in September 10 1846. The sewing machine fixes clothes and makes blankets. It also made life easier instead of by hand , and not spending that much time on something. -
Seneca falls convention
The Seneca Falls Convention, which took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, was the first national women's rights convention and a pivotal event in the continuing story of U.S. and women's rights. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists people. The resolutions protested the lack of legal and political rights for women. 300 people attendend to this convention (100 male and 200 female). -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She was born in Maryland in 1820, and successfully escaped in 1849. Yet she returned many times to rescue both family members and non-relatives from the plantation system. She led hundreds to freedom in the North as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. -
Missouri Compromise of 1850
On January 29, 1850, Whig Senator Henry Clay gave a speech which called for compromise on the issues dividing the Union. On september 1850 five laws were passed that dealt with slavery.
