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Aug 16, 1501
The slave trade
The slave trade was mosly in the ships were people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low for standing. The heat was often unbearable, and the air nearly unbreathable. Women were often used sexually. Men were often chained in pairs, shackled wrist to wrist or ankle to ankle. People were crowded together, usually forced to lie on their backs with their heads between the legs of others. This meant they often had to lie in each other's feces, urine, and, in the case of dysentery, even blood. -
Cotton Gin
The Cotton gin was created by Eli Whitny. This machine revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.The bad thing about this was that slave were neede more to make the prosses faster so that meant that slaves were captured a lot more, -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American journalist and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.The impact was that he helped remove slavery -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, abolitionist, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.The impact was that he was the first slave to ever do this and it encoraged more people -
Missouri comprimes
Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. Congress created a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. The impact was that slaves were being free. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South.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 Underground Railroad,an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized for that purpose. The impact was that she freed a lot of slaves and that helped them so they could live in freedom. -
Lowell Mill Girls
The "Mill Girls" were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of propertied New England farmers, between the ages of 15 and 30. There also could be "little girls" who worked there about the age of 13. The impact that took in scociety was that they gave women more chances in life -
The Telegraph
The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse in the 1830s and 1840s.The telegraph revolutionized long distance communication. This invention worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.This benefited on people because some families did not live together so this helped them by communicating with each other but the only problem was that one single message could take up to days or weeks. -
women's right movement
The women's right movement were in the 1800s.the women were just involved in the home. True womanhood held that women were designed only mother and expected to cultivates piety. Women that were married could not drink and also could not flirt nor wear anything revealing. Womens were inferior to men meaning they were not the same levels as men. Becuase of this women wanted to be equal just like men.The impact was that there were more rights for women. -
irish immigration
The Irish Famine caused the first mass migration of Irish people to the United States. The effects of the Irish Potato Famine continued to spur on Irish immigration well into the 20th century after the devastating fungus that destroyed Ireland's prized potato crops died out in 1850. This immigration record collection includes more than 604,000 immigrants from Ireland during the Great Famine, covering the years 1846 through 1851, and arriving at the Port of New York. -
Seneca falls convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman.Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. Attracting widespread attention. The impact was that this helped the women get rights and equality. -
The compromise of 1850
The comprimise of 1850 consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. The impact was that the law was making fair for everyone and less difficualte -
The first great migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.African Americans had become an urbanized population. More than 80 percent of blacks lived in cities. A majority of 53 percent remained in the South, while 40 percent lived in the North, and 7 percent in the west.The impact was that the countries were overpopulated and the people who lived there got mad.
