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Apr 16, 1518
The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Millions of African men, women, and children made the 21-to-90-day voyage aboard grossly overcrowded sailing ships manned by crews mostly from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and France. -
Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. 10 to 15 million enslaved people were transported from Western Africa to the Americas. -
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
The inventor of the cotton gin was Eli Whitney. This invention was a machine that influenced the history of the Untied States. The Cotton Gin was used to make picking cotton quicker and easier. It made picking cotton easier, but is also led to the growth of slavery in the American South as the demand for cotton workers rapidly increased. -
John Brown
John Brown - hero to the North, terrorist to the South; wanted to lead a slave rebellion; was hung and killed. He was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. -
Fredrick Douglas
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. -
Cult of Domesticity
Nineteenth-century, middle-class American women saw their behavior regulated by a social system known today as the cult of domesticity, which was designed to limit their sphere of influence to home and family. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories. The compromise, devised by Henry Clay, was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820. -
Temperance Movement
temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements typically criticize excessive alcohol consumption. -
Samuel Morse's Telegraph
The telegraph - it was invented by Samuel Morse in 1837. It was a machine that could send a clicking signal across a wire. Morse could transmit messages whenever he could string his telegraph cable. The only problem with the telegraph was that communication was limited to stations linked by a cable. -
Lowell Mill Girls
The Lowell mills were the first hint of the industrial revolution to come in the United States. The factories in Lowell employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. While working, they read, talked, and educated themselves so they can have their voices heard. -
Irish Immigration
the Irish population in America was second in number only to the English. One half of the population in Ireland imigrated to the United States. Most were poor and suffering from starvation and disease.The disease ruined Ireland's potatoe crops. -
Alfred Nobel's Dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive material charfe used for demolition. One reason why Alfred Noble invented dynamite was the safety of construction work and blasting rock during mining. -
The 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.
