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