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CHAPTER 14, SECTION 4THE MOVEMENT TO END SLAVERY
Abolition – or a complete end to slavery American Anti-Slavery Society – Its
members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans
The Quakers were among the first group to challenge slavery on religious grounds.
SLAVERY
Antislavery reformers did not always agree on the details. They differed how much equality they thought African Americans should have like full political and or social equalities.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
The organization was not an actual railroad but was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives, or escaped slaves
William Lloyd Garrison – published an antislavery newspaper and helped found American Anti-Slavery Society
SLAVERY
Congress took action to block abolitionist by creating gag orders to ban talk of antislavery petitions
Some Americans opposed equality for African Americans because they had racist attitudes, feared losing jobs and saw slavery as vital to South's’ Economy
WOMEN’S RIGHTS
In 1838, Sarah Grimke published a pamphlet arguing for equal rights for women. She titled it Letters on the Equality of the sexes and the Condition of Women
Seneca Falls Convention – the first public meeting about women’s right held in the United States
WOMEN’S RIGHTS CONT.
Declaration of Sentiments – This document detailed beliefs about social injustice toward women
Sojoumer Truth was a public speaker and supporter of both, abolition and the women’s rights movement
ABOLITION AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Female abolitionist found they were denied some rights which helped influence women to demand rights
What limitations on women’s right did many activist find unacceptable were they lacked the right to vote married women lost control of money and
property, limited educational opportunities pay inequalities
ASSESSMENTS FOR SECTION 4, 5 AND END OF CHAPTER QUESTIONS..
Question and Answers Page 459, Questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a,
3b Page 466, Questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a Page 469, Questions 1-3, 4a, 4b, 5a,
6a, 6b, 7a, 8a, 10 Page 471, Questions 1-6