Antebellum

Antebellum Timeline

  • slavey

    deep roots in history
    dates back the bible, ancient greek and ancient roman history
    occurred thousands of years before to the Transatlantic slave trade began
    food and suplies to get that they traded africans
    The Great Migration

    colonies grew from 450 to 4,000
    mortality rate were high
    people had diseases
    they were in need
    triangle trade
    traded goods and traded for slaves
    took about 18 months
    the middle passage
    slave were chained together
    the will get sick
    they will try to fit the
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    The cotton Gin impacted on the south
  • The First Great Migration

    first steps to stop spreding slavey
  • Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

    This threatened to mess up the balance of slave and free states in Congress.
  • Legislative Actions

    the missouri compromise
    power in congress between slave and free state
    it was prohibited
    sectionalism
    Henry Clay
    five laws that dealt with slavery
    Kansas-nebraska Act
    a bill that mandated
  • Lowell Mill

    Lowell Mill
    1840 there was poor workers
    there was health problems
    low pay
    women and children would work too
    “city of spindles”
    paid $2 a week
    most families made their own clothes
    when they are educated the would want to become like teachers
  • Abolitionist

    John Brown
    A folk hero in the north and a terrorist in the south
    fighting for a cause
    not a single slave joined brown
    he sentence to death
  • Women’s Rights Movement

    cult of domesticity

    limited women influence to the home and family
    women has to listen to her husband

    women work in home

    they will compare women to dogs
    Letters of the Equality of the Sexes
    Seneca Falls Convention

    firsts womens rights
    there are men at the convention
  • Immigration

    the diseases of the potatoes Their lives was rough and the were poor