and this was one of the great opportunities a free society offered.
             Next to that is a picture of Chief Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Chief Black Hawk, as he was better known. After being removed, from Illinois, the chief returned from Iowa with 1,000 men, women and children to reclaim land ceded to the U.S. in a treaty. 500 warriors fought against 3,000 Illinois militia and government troops in a 3-month war, named Black Hawk war of 1832. This setting showed the inner turmoil of a nation headed to a great civil war.
             The Agricultural Revolution helped develop the idea of a free labor society. In 1831, the McCormick reaper, the premium plough, and the steel plough, were introduced and allowed for more crops to be farmed at a lower cost with fewer farm hands.
             "No sooner do you set foot on American soil than yourself in sort of tumult....
             All around you, everything is on the move."
             He sums up the new free labor movement well and, without a doubt, that was the new America. Factories were being built to meet the needs of this new economy and they were employing Irish immigrants, women and children to work in them in the 1840's. The North was the setting for this new era and it was exemplified by the technology of mass production. Examples of the new trade were many: clocks, glass bowls, guns, doorknobs, chairs, couches, ploughs and reapers.
             As the visitor walks in and turns the corner, he/she will find Frederick Douglas's showcase. He lived during 1817-1895. He was a slave in Maryland and Baltimore and had escaped in 1838 to the North and became a lecturer. He was a member of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, a leader of the abolitionists and a womens' rights activist. Douglas was quite the influential person during his time; he helped to set up the emancipation of slaves, with Lincoln, into the army and defend their rights. He had believed that everyone was not, but should b...