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-Abolition-the movement to end slavery -1804 most northern state outlawed slavery -1807 importation of slaves were banned -David Walker- a free slave in North -urged slaves to revolt -died mysteriously -A few whites in the north fought slavery -William Lloyd Garrison- The Liberator
-introduced amendment to abolish slavery Eyewitnesses to Slavery -Two major abolitionist speakers Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth -Douglass -talented public speaker -people believed that he could never have been a slave -published autobiography that told of his experience -feared recapture so left America for two years -published an anti-slavery paper when he returned The Underground Railroad -people helped slaves escaped to the North -Underground Railroad-an aboveground series of escape routes from the South to the North -took wagon, boats, trains -Henry Brown packed in a wooden box and shipped to Philadelphia -people usually traveled at night -Douglass his 11 runaways at a time
-Harriet Tubman -Slave in Maryland -tried to save another slave from punishment -overseer fractured Tubman’s skull with a two pound wight -In 1849 she escaped -made 19 journeys to free slaves -40,000 for her capture, she was never caught Women Reformers Face Barriers -Elizabeth Cady Stanton -attended the world Anti Slavery Convention in London in 1840 -was not allowed to enter -men believed it was not a woman’s place -William Lloyd Garrison disagreed and sat with the women -Women the 1800’s had few legal or political right -could not vote, sit on juries, hold public office -many laws treated women as children -Stanton decided to demand equality for women
-Held in New York on July 19 and 20 1848 -100-300 men and women showed up -Declaration of Sentiments stated “stated all men and women are created equal” -Every resolution won approval except suffrage -Suffrage-the right to vote -right to vote would give women political power -by 1852 the women’s right movement was being mad fun of Continued Calls for Women’s Rights -Susan B. Anthony -skilled organizer -worked in the temperance and antislavery movements -built woman’s movement into a national organization -supported married women to own land -by 1839 Mississippi pass law, 1848 New York, -by 1865 29 states had similar laws -Woman’s suffrage did not come till the 1900’s -Slavery was not abolished until 1865 Directory: sites -> vms.vale.k12.or.us -> files -> u11 sites -> 9. 5 Political Powers and Achievements Tom Burns- beacon High School sites -> Indiana Academic Standards Resource Guide World History and Civilization Standards Approved March 2014 sites -> Penn State Harrisburg American Studies/Women Studies 104: Women and the American Experience Spring 2015 Instructor: Kathryn Holmes sites -> Penn State Harrisburg am st/wmnst 104: Women and the American Experience Spring 2015 Instructor: Kathryn Holmes sites -> In the years between the Seneca Falls Convention and the Civil War, powerful links existed between antislavery and women’s rights advocates. Virtually all women’s rights advocates supported abolition sites -> - u11 -> The Age of Revolution Chp. 4 Se u11 -> Egypt Today Chap 9 Sec 3 Notes The Suez Canal Giving Up the Canal and Control u11 -> The Louisiana Purchase and Exploration Chap 10 Sec 2 Notes The West in 1800 Download 7.14 Kb. Share with your friends:
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