Factory Workers 1800s

 

 

 The wealth and power of factory working in England  became a issue for them. The amount of time they spend working was between 13-15 hours every day, working sometimes the whole week, working in horrible conditions. Some of these workers were beginners or never trained to working the machines and were given position into working them. They usually got into a bad injury. And if they became injured, then they became unemployed and try making a living in the streets. In the Factories it was harmful to work in factories since many of them worked with chemicals, while the air was deadly and toxic, making women children disfigured or disabled when born. When working near machines, they were able to affect the hearing since the early machines were loud having to be near it for 14 hours. The difficult job out for factory workers were mining, having to deal with coal and stem power. 

 As them being workers, they basically was more under control then having their own kind of freedom. When they will work they worked through those 13-15 hours straight doing the same job. The factory job was always the same, making things to seem more dull, working with the same functions everyday. Many of the workers of the 19th century were of young children and women, having the ability to being skilled using the fingers. They worked in coal mines, as children did their job in cleaning the machinery. Since they were more weaker, they were easier to have more control over and command them to do different things without refusing to do so. But even though they worked for many hours doing hard work and taking orders, they were not paid that good. Children began working at the age of 7. Even though the economy at these times went up, it did not add up to the amount that the workers deserved. There payment use to go up, but for slowly, while items at stores continued to increase. During the 19 century, the factory workers in the U.S. were not being treated fair being both women and children having to work in their hands for many hours and many days during the week.
  
 http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/distance/hist/factory.htm

Sweden Emigration 1800s

  

Many Immigrants through the years has immigrated to America being both legal and illegal. There was plenty of reasons why lots of them came to America having to deal with a political, economic, or for religious reasons. With this coming along, it brought about new cultures. Some of these countries that were immigrants entering America was Canada, Sweden, Chinese, and Japanese. They all had there own reasons for entering America. Some like to work on transatlantic railroads, while some economically  wasn't doing the best.  Agriculturally the farms had poor soiling, while cottages of the farmers. These Emigrates had hardships with the population around the Northern and Western parts of Europe, while dealing with agricultural hardships, and social crisis.In the time of 1809, the Russians lost battle while the Danish won in 1814 having total amount of pressure on Europe. Since there was more of vaccination of smallpox, there was a better chance of decreasing death of infants. As well as there was better supply of food, but made society worsen. Sweden had less communications and industries from other west European countries..

There was technical inventions and improvements through the years of the nineteenth century. New things came about of railroads and rivers, and building elementary schools while still there was agricultural problems for the Sweden. One forth of the emigrants of Sweden came from the cities between the 1850s and 1920s. During the ending of the 1860s, the Swedish dealt with agricultural problems, They began to have have crop failure, rotting grain and not such great fields. Swedish had left there countries since at this time 1869 became the starvation years. Millions of Swedish people emigrated to the U.S during 1868-1914.  during 1910, less than 61% lived in cities and were born as Americans.  This was a better way of living to the Swedish having better urbanized areas.Many emigrated to places like Chicago and Minneapolis.The labor market was better for the immigrants than the farm regions, having better jobs. When they lived in the U.S, the still spoke their own language. Many were living in populated areas of Chicago and Minnesota. Through the emigrated lives of Swedish people, there became a massive growth in population in the U.S.A.where they were able to have better agriculture and urbanized areas, and a better living.

 http://www.americanwest.com/swedemigr/pages/emigra.htm

African American Slavery

 

African American Slavery trade was prohibited in 1808 by congress. Importing slaves may not had been allowed, but their was still trading and auctions around to sell slaves. Around 1790 and 1860, slavery was pushed more to the southern area. Being put in a area not close to their family. The reason for raising and selling them was to make the economy better for them in ways of getting money. They had different jobs in the 1800s, they worked for hours and hours on picking cotton and planting. Some did laundry and made dinner. Some worked in factories, construction workers.
If some did good, they were given nice things. While some slaves werent appreciated at times,they were threatened. Some worked in mines and there they were usually punished. But some were freed because of their goodness of doing so well with their owners after their owner died. They created the underground railroad in canada in the 1800s. There was many free Negroes after the 1830s. During the 1830s and 1860s, the number of slaves decreased.

There was different negros in seven classes. some were descendents of some servants, while some were born free mothers. Some were successful at gaining freedom. But these slaves were not considered as good people to follow for the other slaves in different communities. The more they tried to escape, the worse they were said as bad examples to follow. If a negro was to try to become a free slave, they had to pay for the mayer and his family $50 each person. Even if they were free, they could not underestimate and do wrong towards the whites, they were sent to jail for any misbehavior they had. There was 290 free slaves that became trapped in the city jail. Life for both free slaves and slaves, still remained a struggle

Niagara Movement

 

During the year of 1905,  Du Bois had great contolling power over the black community. He formed a meeting at the Niagara Falls, New York.He formed a group offering militant alternative to Washington This is how it became known as the Niagara Movement.It represented the African American community. Booker Washington had made a policy of adjustments. Of July, 29 men formed a group called the niagra movement, the reason for the groups name was because of the location that everything was taking place and it became something that they wanted to protest  and let out world wide, something they wanted to be done.They believed that all men were equal, meaning that no man is better than the other, they also believed that everyone should be treated the same due to their actions or conduct. 

Economically, at the time, they argued that negro-americans should have the option of living out their own dreams and making a living decently like regular americans did. Education was not given to them properly around this time they were seperated because of color  during schooling. There was not much education given in the south, so they believed that they should have the rights to have proper teaching, or if they wanted to be well educated, have the ability and decision to have higher education.Juries was made to stop discrimination and if negro-americans ever made a fault in their actions, whites should have the same punishments so as to being equal towards torment and hatred.They believed that all men were created equal, even though they had different rights for certain things. In many ways, they helped and supported the African American people in slavery. They stood as great supporters from year 1896 to 1954.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_niagara.html

source:http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-niagara-movement.html

 http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1152.htm

Harriet Tubman

Originally, around 1819, Harriet Tubman birth name was Araminta Ross. in Dorchester County, Maryland. being brought into slavery, she was not treated right, taking in whippings throughout her life. At age 6, she gained experience in working, but was beaten a lot. She had gotten the measles at that age,  her owners at the time thought that something was wrong with her. So they brought her back to Brodas, getting her owners changed after she got better. But then, it turned out her new owners wasn't any better than the first. They whipped her while she worked, and was taken back to Brodas due to her behavior. She was later given a bright bandana to wear over her head representing she was no longer a child. She got her named changed to Harriet, naming herself after her mother. She was injured during the time she was age 12 because she refused to help a white man in tying a man who tried to escape from somewhere.

At the age 25, she married a man named John Tubman who was a free African American who did not want to leave nor want her to travel north in escape of the area. She wanted to leave the area so she did not have to go into slavery again. But he didn't care, and he said if she does he will tell her master. She wanted freedom, so in order to have that freedom, she had left him 1849 and escaped to Philadelphia. During her escape, a white abolitionist neighbor, gave a piece of paper, in help to her freedom. So she took the opportunity heading in the direction to freedom, while receiving help from other abolitionists. After arriving to Philadelphia, she got a job where she got payed to help free slaves. In 1850, she helped slaves leave the north. She went back to get her husband, but he had already remarried so she went back.Later she was made a "conductor"of the underground railroad knowing all the rights to free territory. in 1951, she came back to the U.S. to help other slaves escape. She continued her search in other slaves to help them in freedom. In 1861, she had gotten a job in the civil war, becoming a nurse helping injured soldiers, treating them with medicines. After the war ended 1869, she got married to a man named Nelson Davis, whom she stood with for 19 years, till he had died. So she returned back to Auburn New York while supporting for women rights. But then, she died 1913. When 1995 arrived, she was honored by the federal government, bearing her name and likeness.
  

source:http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html

sojourner truth

 

 Sojourner Truth was born 1797 .Before Sojourner Truth changed her name in the future,  she was named Isabella Van Wagener. The reason for this was because since she was a spreader in words of truth, she decided to rename herself representing herself.At a young age, she had a master named Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh , along with her 11 siblings. But she was the one left behind while the others where sold for slavery or died from sickness. But then. after her master died, she got her master switched to someone else named Charles, who was the son of the last master.After 8 yrs went by when she was 11, her master became very sick and died. So his slaves were taken in by other families. But no one wanted Sojourner, so they sold her for a flock of sheep and the Neely family took her in. But they did not treat her right. She was beaten and tortured, after such times of having difficulty learning how to speak english as she was being taught.

Later, her father helped her into getting a more nicer master, being sold for $105. The family that bought her was named Schryvers.But then was moved away once again when a man named James Dumont had bought her for $300. The man turned out to be very nice, but not the rest of his family. The wife use to enjoy making fun of her, while the maids use to love seeing her get in trouble when they will throw in ashes in the clean water used for the potatoes, then was later hit for a stunt she never pulled. Later in 1817, a law came about where before being born 1799, you was set free from slavery. She decided to name herself Sojourner Truth around 1843, after slavery, she became a spokesperson against slavery throughout all her life and became successful, trying to make a change about slavery towards the future.Later through her life, she died in the year of 1893.

source:
http://www.mccsc.edu/~jcmslib/mlk/truth/slavery.htm
docsouth.unc.edu

Lucy Stone

Lucy was born on Aug. 13 1818 who later supported the women's rights. At a young age, she disagreed with her fathers idea on men having complete domination over women. She went against slavery and became part of the anti slavery society, trying to help women gain freedom. At the time, her father did not help her with her education, so she changed her education with teaching, by making and earning money. She entered institutions, developing in her writing skills, then she graduated 1847.
She was the first to have a college degree in Massachusetts.Later, she met a businessman in 1853 named Henry B. Blackwell they both got married in 1855.Both her and her husband wanted to help women with having equal rights in marriage. So through the years she helped support the rights of women and of african americans. 1848, after joining the anti slavery society, she traveled to different places to get others to help support slavery instead of going against it. She gave many speeches during weekends for womens rights. Through the years of giving speeches, she gave lectures, helping women to have the rights in marriage, and the right to vote. Finally, in 1879, they allowed women to vote, but only for school board members.Twenty-seven years after she had died 1893, women was able to vote worldwide.

Source:www.ohiohistorycentral.org 
womenshistory.about.com/od/stonelucy/p/lucy_stone.htm
www.oberlin.edu/~EOG/OYTT-images/LucyStone.html