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Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny. Helped workers spin wool faster and make cloth easier. -
White take rights from mulattoes and black men.
in 1758, white people with power started restricting laws to mulattoes and black men through a rigid class system. -
American Revolution
After the French and Indian War, they lost a lot of money so the government started imposing taxes in order to get back the money he had lost. People also got mad because they didn't have a voice in the Parliament. -
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Jose de San Martin
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Simon Bolivar
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White men take power
The French Revolution gave black men and slaves ideas to revolt for their rights and equality. Black men were also separated from political. White men with power and wealth were elected to the States General. -
Start of the French Revolution
Durin King Louis XIV's ruling, there as social and economic inequality, new political ideas influenced by the Enlightenment, agricultural failment, etc. Because of this the Third Estate created a Nassional Assembly. -
Storming of the Bastille
An angry crowd armed with muskets, swords and various makwshift weapons gathered around the Bastille. They attacked the prison and liberated 6 men. They also stole weapons and munitions which they later used in the revolution. -
Ceremony lead by Zamba
A ceremony leaded by a black slave called Zamba with 200 followers planed on killing all white men living in the island. This revolt started 8 days later, when they attacked and destroyed plantations and burned their homes. -
Execution of the leader Vincent Ogé
Vincent Oge wanted to obtain voting privileges for free men of color but they refused to give him what he wanted. He gathered a troop to accomplish what he wanted. He and his troop were forced into Santo Domingo and then captured in Hinche; where he then surrender and was executed on February 6, 1791. Such action made black men and slaves angry. -
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Haitian Revolution
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Beggining of the Revolution
The Natlional Assembly limited rights to black men and mulattoes; and in response, they rebelled. They cut their water supply and blocked access to food. -
Slave army
80,000 out of 170,000 slaves joined the army. They set up camps with a civil goverment, water and food supplies, weapons, etc. -
Negotiation attempt
Slaves offer Étienne Polverel , a civil commisioner, to negotiate but instead he told them that if they surrender, they will have his complete pardon; they refuse and protest against him. Étienne Polverel is forced to attack the slaves because of their acts. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney creates the cotton gin. Which made it much easier to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber. -
Louverture forgives
The British decide to work peace with Louverture. He forgives them, French citizens who didn't fight the British, the black troops who helped the British army and the ones who abandones the British army before the revolution started. -
New emperor
Dessalines is crowned Emperor Jacques I of Haiti. -
Haitian's equality
Dessalines proclaims all Haitian's black to strength national unity. He also affirms the permanent abolition of slavery, that all Haitians are equal and free, and right to land ownership. -
Venezuela
Independence of Venezuela from Spanish control. -
Argentina
Argentina gains independence. -
Chile
Chile is completely free from Spanish troops. -
Nueva Granada
Independence of former viceroyality of Nueva Granada. Battle of Boyaca. -
Gran Colombia
Gran Colombia under Bolivar ( Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador) -
Carabobo
Battle of Carabobo. Venezuela was free from Spanish rule. -
Peru
Independence of Peru liberated by Jose de San Martin. -
Colombia
Independence of Colombia. -
Bolivia
Bolivia gains independence. -
Telegraph
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. It allowed messages to be sent faster over a cable. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was the first to speak to people using a telephone -
Airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the first plane that is not powered by wind, but by engine.