CH. 5-3: BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN REFORM MOVEMENT

• Women were not permitted to vote in federal elections until 1920.

• They were very active in reform movements.

SENECA FALLS CONVENTION (1848)

• Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott

• Preached “all men and women are created equal.”

• Women become active in the abolitionist movement.

• Declaration of Sentiments- called for equality for men and women.

STANTON AND MOTT

MENTALLY ILL

• Led by Dorothea Dix

• Mentally ill were treated like animals

• Asylums were created by the states and began to supervise the care of the mentally ill

DOROTHEA DIX

CONFLICT OVER SLAVERY

• South- slaves were viewed as property

• North- felt it was morally wrong

• Abolitionist- northerners who wanted slavery abolished.

ABOLITIONIST LEADERS

• Harriet Beecher Stowe- wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin (account of slavery)

• Very controversial in the south• Lincoln described her as the “little women

whose book made such a great war.”

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

HARRIET TUBMAN

• Escaped from slavery

• Leader of the Underground Railroad

• Helped free hundreds of slaves during the Civil War

HARRIET TUBMAN

ABOLITIONISTS LEADERS

• Frederick Douglas was a former slave who wanted to abolish slavery

• William Lloyd Garrison was a white northerner who also wanted to abolish slavery

• Both wrote articles and newspaper preaching abolitionism

FREDERICK DOUGLAS

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

JOHN BROWN (MARTYR)

• White abolitionist who used violence• Harpers Ferry 1859- attacked a federal

arsenal to lead an armed revolt but failed and he was captured• Tried & hung but seen as a hero

JOHN BROWN