Reform Movements - Abolition and Suffrage

Abolition

the movement trying an end to slavery

Underground Railroad

network of secret routes and safe houses to help enslaved people escape to free states and Canada

William Lloyd Garrison

He created the first abolitionist's newspaper - "The Liberator" which focused religious reasons for ending slavery.

John Brown

abolitionist that tried to start a slave rebellion by attacking Harper's Ferry, VA.

suffrage

the right to vote in political elections

Isabella Sojourner Truth

Formerly enslaved, she will use her experience to advocate for abolishing slavery and women's suffrage.

Susan B. Anthony

She illegally voted in the 1872 presidential election to gain recognition for the Women's Rights Movement.

Frederick Douglass

An African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He published the North Star newspaper

Harriet Tubman

She was an abolitionist that helped many of enslaved African Americans escape slavery

Seneca Falls Convention

The first women's rights convention in 1848, to discuss the changes needed in American society for women to be treated equally

Reform

To change for the better

advocate

to support

Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances

A document that outlined women's inequalities in American society that began with "All men and woman are created equal"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

She organized the Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women's Rights Movement in the United States. Major writer of the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to expose the horrors of slavery

Uncle Tom's Cabin

a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral

Examples of rights denied to women

Denied the right to vote

Denied educational opportunities, especially higher education

Denied equal opportunities in business

Limited in right to own property

Reasons for abolishing slavery

Morally/religiously wrong

Cruel and inhumane

A violation of the principles of democracy

emancipate

to set free

Lucretia Mott

Activist in both the abolitionist and women's movements; with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was a principal organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.