Antebellum Timeline

  • Cotton Gin

    The cotton Gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney.
    A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation
  • John Brown

    John Brown
    John brown was in jail for many years because he used violence by killing people fighting for freedom, and many people didn’t join in because they didn’t want to get in trouble because they knew that the slave owners had more power.
  • Missisipi Compromise

    Missisipi was a slave state.The compromise was 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 in (1846-1848).
  • Federick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass was a Afican American slave, abolitionist. He grew up being a slave and seeing his mother getting wipped.He also have speeches to people in a risk of being caught as a fugitive. He became the leader of the abolitionists.
  • Irish imigration