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The First Slaves Arrived In Jamestown
First slaves are sold into slavery. They got on a boat and then they were sold into the British or American colonies on August 20th, 1619. Not too much is known about what happened or what these slaves done once they got to America. -
Women's Education
Women were not encouraged to get an education because some people believed that it would ruin their marriage prospects and be harmful to their mind. Unless you were wealthy, you couldn't get an education. By the mid-17th century women could go to school with their brothers. If you had money you would be placed into a household of a friend. In the household, you would be taught different things like how to read, write, run a household and they also practiced surgery. -
The Start of Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a period in Europe and America where they had become industrial and urban, most of the manufacturing was often done in people’s homes, using other hand tools or basic machines. The iron and textile industries along, with the development of the steam engine, played important roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking. -
Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was an American inventor from Massachusetts, he invented something to produce mass amounts of clean cotton in a short period of time. There were 10 times more work than there was by hand, the crop industry money went from $150,000 to a little more than $8 million. That time span was only just over the short time of 10 years -
The First Black Separate Church
Absalom Jones the first ever black church was drawn up and planned, the leaders of the white church were not against the black community, but they were against a separate black church. It took 2 years, until they were able to be allowed to break the ground and build their own church. These people were tired of not being allowed to sit where they wanted to in church, so they took the incentive to make their own -
The First Petition Failed
The first failed petition for slave rights was in 1773, the first petition for slave rights was appealed in the state of Massachusetts, there was nothing too specific in the petition, except that they tried to convince them with stuff like wisdom, justice, and goodness. -
The North Bans Slavery
At this point in time, most all the northern states had abolished slavery. This abolishment didn't happen just overnight though. There was gradual emancipation, there were deadlines set by the government to make sure that ALL the slaves were free by a certain date. -
The Factory Act
This act was made to help improve the working conditions of all the children in the textile factories. Way too many young children were working in awful conditions and working for hours and hours on end. The act didn’t allow children under 9 to work, people who want to work must have an age certificate if you’re a child worker, 9-13 years old work no longer than 9hrs, 13-15 no more than 12hrs, children were not allowed at night, and went to school for at least 2 hours. -
The Mines Act
This act did not allow females underground and no children under the age of 10 could be employed to work underground. Boys 10-18 continued to work in the mines. There were no hours set to work, and inspection could only take place based on checking the conditions of the workers. Ironically many women were annoyed that they could no longer earn the money they needed provide for their family. -
Ten Hour Act
Ten Hour Act was made to make sure that women and children could only work up to 10 hours a day in factories. This would only let them to work 10 hours on weekdays, 8 hours on Saturdays, and Sundays off. It also limited them to work about 63 hours a week. This act was not passed on its first attempt, but after several tries it eventually passed in 1847. -
Women's Rights
The first women's right convention was in New York, 2 days after a big discussion and debate sixty-eight women and thirty-two men signed a declaration of sentiments and set the agenda for the women's right movement. A set of twelve resolutions was adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and also to get voting rights for women -
Local and National Women’s Rights
Local and national women's rights conventions are held, over 1000 attend the first convention. The suffrage leaders discussed both abolition and women's rights issues. In Akron, Ohio in 1851 Sojourner Truth gives her famous "Ain’t I a Woman" argument. With the start of the civil war suffrage leaders turned their attention to the anti-slavery fight. Concern grew all over wording of the proposed fourteenth amendment which would put the word "male" into the U.S. Constitution. -
Clarina Nichols
A recognized leader in the women's right movement, moved from Vermont to Kansas Territory. A champion of many other reforms causes, she played an important role at the constitutional convention July 5, 1859. When assembled at Wyandotte to draw up a state constitution, Nichols presented a petition calling for equal political and civil rights for Kansas Women. -
Abraham Lincoln Elected
On the 1860s election, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. President Lincoln was a big supporter behind the Emancipation Proclamation. That was the thing behind freeing all the enslaved Africans. He was the main reason behind slaves being free and ending slavery once and for all. -
13th Amendment Passed
This was to abolish slavery. This amendment was passed by Abraham Lincoln, who's original goal was to get rid of discrimination in America once and for all, but that obviously did not happen until the 1960s even though there still wasn’t allowed to be slaves, the black race was still discriminated against till the 1960s. -
The KKK Founded
The KKK was an anti-movement group, they didn't believe that black people were inferior to white people, they were founded by some old veterans who believed that the blacks should be killed or harassed because the whites were better than them. -
Over 10,000 Signatures
Suffragists petitions Congressed with over ten thousand signatures asking for an amendment prohibiting of voting. When women in Washington D.C. ask for the vote in local elections, the first Congressional debate on Woman Suffrage takes place. May 1st was the first Women's Rights Convention since the Civil War. The convention resolved itself into The American Equal Rights Association. Debate in the woman's suffrage movement continues over the Fourteenth Amendment. -
The KKK Act Passed
It is also known as the “Third Force Act”. This act was passed to stop terroristic acts, such as the Ku-Klux-Klan better known as the KKK, The KKK was founded in 1865 by some confederate veterans who were upset that blacks now had a so-called freedom, So President Grant passed this act to enforce Martial Law against the KKK. -
The Freedoms Bureau Is Abolished
On this day the Freedman's Bureau is taken out of effect, the white men believed that the negro men were mooching or taking advantage of this. This was to help the newly freed slaves get on their feet and start anew. Some took advantage, so the white men abolished this, so the blacks would have to work things for their selves out themselves instead of the white people working for their greater good. -
Granted School
Kentucky’s widows with children in school were granted "school suffrage" the right to vote in school board elections. Ulysses's uncle was a widow and people think that's why he attended the Presbyterian Academy in Ripely the next winter. -
NACW
This was to help black women have equal rights. The Black women organized a club movement that led to the forming of the National Association in Washington D.C. The organization's founders included some of the most renowned African-American women educators, community leaders, and civil rights activists in America. -
NWTULA
The National Women's Trade Union League of America was founded in Boston of working-class women and women from wealthy families. It was purpose to "assist in the organization of women wage workers into trade unions and thereby to help them secure conditions necessary for healthful and efficient work and to obtain a just reward for such work." -
The Uprising of 20,000
The act was led by the International Garment Workers Union, lots of the women working there went on a 14-week strike against the factories to receive justice for the lots of people who suffered from the harsh working conditions in the factory, they wanted shorter hours, bigger pay, and better working conditions also they objected to the common practice of locking the doors of the work floors from the outside as a security measure and as a way to control the workforce. -
The House Votes
The House votes on woman's suffrage for the first time ever, the measure was defeated 204-174. 40,000 marches in a suffrage parade in New York. Suffrage was defeated in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Recognizing that Shaw's powers as an organizer were limited, NAWSA names Carrie Chapman Catt president again. -
Women’s Right to Vote
The 19th amendment guaranteed all American women get the right to vote. Beginning in the mid-19th century several generations of women suffrage supporters lectured, wrote and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered, a massive change of the constitution. Beginning in the 1800s, women organized petitions, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose.