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Period: Oct 28, 1500 to
Antebellum Timeline
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Jul 20, 1518
The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was when millions of people from African were shipped to the new world as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The MIddle Passage happend in the South. -
Mar 19, 1525
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are enslaved that were transported to the New World, many on the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was in the South. -
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Antebellum Timeline
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The first Great Migration
In 1619, a Dutch ship, the White Lion, captured 20 enslaved Africans in a battle with a Spanish ship.For food and supplies, the Dutch traded the enslaved Africans to the Colonials as indentured servants.
The Great Migration. The Great Migration (1618-1623) was a period where the population grew from 450 to 4,000. However, there was also an extremely mortality rate due to disease, malnutrition, and war with Indians. This happened in the North. -
Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney. The cotton Gin help the slaves pick the seads of the cotton much faster. This imapact the society because even though the Cotton Gin was much faster than hands, the factories in the North were growing so the South needed more slaves (3.2 million in 1850).This was invented for the southerners. -
Temperance Movement
A temperance movement (is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages).This movement began around the 1820's and ended around 1872. The temperence movement eas for the south. The impact was that this helped slaves females (that their master will come home drunk and abuse and hurt them) not get hurt by their masters. -
Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise ( federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories). The compromise, devised by Henry Clay, was agreed by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820. This compromisewas for the south . -
The Telegraph
Samuel Morse began designing his own version in 1832. He then developed the Morse Code in 1835 and by 1838 he presented his invention to the U.S Congress. This invention helped its society because it helped people talk with each other but sometimes the messages will take weeks and sometimes months. The Telegraph was used mainly in the more deprived areas of the North and the Midlands. -
lowell mill girls
The Lowell Mill Girls are female factory workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The impact on society that the lowell Mill Girls left was that females have voices too not just man and that women could fight for their freedom. -
Sewing Machine
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Irish Immigration
The population of Irish Immigrantes in 1851 was about 6,552,385. The Irish Immigration started in 1846 and ended in -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention (a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman). It lasted for two days from July 19–20, 1848.The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. This lead to the women's rights movement, Cady Stanton and Mott had met in London in 1840 as delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was born on March 1822, Dorchester County, MD. She was an American bondwomen who escaped from slavery in 1849.Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom on the route of Underground Railroad. -
John Brown
John Brown is an abolitionist in the South. He was a slave, he imact society because he fought for salvery and he also set free many slaves by going to the masters house and killing everybody and then he set the slaves free.
