Antebellum Timeline

  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    The Spinning Jenny was invented by a man named James Hargreaves. He invented it in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. This invention reduced the time to produce yarm and a worker can use up to eight or more spools at once. This mostly Impacted the north because they could use this for their factories to produce more yarm.
  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine
    This invention had a double pointed needle with an eye at one end. The inventor of the sewing machine was a man named Thomas Saint who built in the England. With this invention cloths were now easier to make.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    The cotton Gin was a machine used to seperate the cotton fiber quickly from their seeds. The man who invented this machine was Eli Whitney. The fiber was produced for clothing or any cotton goods, any cotton that was not damaged they would be used for cotton seeds to plant them to produce more cotton. This invention impacted the North because in the north it was cold and the people needed the cloth.
  • john brown

    john brown
    John brown was a white American abolitionist. He was born onMay 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859.Brown commanded forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie.He believed he was the instrument of God's wrath in punishing men for the sin of owning slaves. This impacted the north because he became an abolitionist and now the south would hate him.
  • Lowell Mill Girls

     Lowell Mill Girls
    Lowell Mill girls were female workers who worked in factories in Massachusetts. They worked during the Industrial Revolution. The women could have worked at anytime like for to help their siblings pay for their college. They also joined with men to do labor. Lowell was an american businessman which the city was named after him and he brought the Industrial Revolution. This impacted the north because now they had more people to work for.
  • Missouri Comprimise

    Missouri Comprimise
    Tension began to rise between pro slavery and anti slavery with the U.S. Congress and across the country. In 1819 Missouri requested for admission to the Union as a slave state, which would threaten and upset the delicates balance between slave states and free states. Congress orchestrated a two part comprimise which would grant Missouri's request but also admitting Maine as a free state. Missouri was part of a slave state, this impacted the north because they lost a free state.
  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Tubman was born on 1822 March and died on March 10 1913. She was an African American Abolitionist. During the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery, she escaped and made 13 missions to rescue 70 families and friends imprisoned in the plantations.legacy of Harriet Tubman was that no matter the odds you face, "keep going."
  • Immigration

    Immigration
    More than one million people arrived in the United States because they were poor refuges, There were rough welcomes in Boston and they had no help to get what they needed to survive.In 1847, the first big year of Famine emigration, the city was swamped with 37,000 Irish Catholics were arriving by sea and land. In New York people made fun of the Irish because of the cloths they wore. This impacted the south because some of the people were poor.
  • The Comprimise of 1850

    The Comprimise of 1850
    Calhoun attacked the plan and forced the north to limit their slavery. It was packed into 5 different bills that was passed by the United States. The compromise was drafted by a senetor named Henry Clay of Kentucky. This impacted the south because they had to exclude slavery from the south.
  • TransAtlantic slave trade

    TransAtlantic slave trade
    It took place in the Atlantic Ocean,It also involved several regions and continents: Africa, America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Indian Ocean. The Slave trade began in the 16th until the 19th century. This impacted the south because they had no more slaves in the late 19th century.
  • The Middle Passage

    The Middle Passage
    It was the part of the trianglular trade, which millions people from Africa would be shipped to the new world as part of an Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed from Europe and headed to African market full of goods which then were purchased or kidnapped Africans who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves, the slaves were traded or sold for raw material. This impacted the south because now more slaves were getting to the south by being sold for raw material.
  • temperance movement

    temperance movement
    This movement is a social movement against consumption of alchoholic beverages. Women didn't want the men to drink the beverage because they would get drunk and hit the women. This impacted the south because the men would drink alchohal everyday after work.
  • women rights movement 1800's: the Cult of domesciticy

    women rights movement 1800's: the Cult of domesciticy
    It was A value system for the upper and middle classes during the 19th centuries in the United States and Great Britian.The value new ideas of femininity of woman's role within the home and the dynamics of work and family.This impacted the south because now the women wanted to protest.
  • The First Great Migration

    The First Great Migration
    More than 6 million African American were relocated to the south to the cities of the north. They had a huge impact in 1916-1970, the impact was on their urban life in the United States Southern blacks were forced to make their living working the land as part of the sharecropping system and offerec in ecomonic oppertunities.