UNIT IV APUSH: ANTEBELLUM III

Abolitionism

The movement for the immediate and complete emancipation of all enslaved people.

William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator

Garrison was a radical white abolitionist who published The Liberator, an influential anti-slavery newspaper that called for immediate, uncompensated emancipation.

the American Anti-Slavery Society

An abolitionist society founded by Garrison and others that became the primary vehicle for the radical abolitionist movement.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written by Himself (1845) by Frederick Douglass

The powerful autobiography of a formerly enslaved man who became one of the most famous intellectuals, orators, and abolitionists of his time.

The Women's Movement

The organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American society.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony

Key leaders and organizers of the early women's rights movement.

the Seneca Falls Convention

The first women's rights convention in the United States, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.

the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments

A document drafted at the Seneca Falls Convention, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, that listed the injustices women faced and demanded that they be granted all the rights and privileges of U.S. citizens, including the right to vote.