CHAPTER SIXTEENPART TWO

• Alexis de Tocqueville

(tawk-veel)

Frenchmen that came to America to observe prisons and other aspects of American life

• Tocqueville (tawk-veel) correctly anticipates the potential of the debate over the abolition of slavery to tear apart the United States

• the rise of the United States and Russia as rival superpowers, which they did become after World War II, with Russia as the central component of the Soviet Union.

• Noting the rise of the industrial sector in the American economy,

HE WROTE A BOOK CALLED DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA

GREATEST ADVANTAGE OF BEING AMERICAN IS..

• AMERICANS ARE ALL BORN EQUAL

VOTING RIGHTS WERE CHANGING IN

THE 1830s-1840s

CACUS• The term caucus apparently comes from

an Algonquin word meaning "gathering of tribal chiefs," and the main crux of the caucus system today is indeed a series of meetings

• Its a way to nominate a presidential

Canidate.

WILLIAM LLOYD

GARRISON

ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN

ABOLITIONISTS

WAIT A MINUTE!

• WHAT IS AN ABOLISHSNIST?

• SOMEONE THAT WAS OPPOSED TO THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY!

• SOMEONE WHO HATED SLAVERY AND WANTED TO GET RID OF IT OR ABOLISH IT!

IF YOU WANTED TO END SLAVERY…

• YOU JOINED AN ANTI- SLAVERY MOVEMENT

CREATED THE LIBERATOR

• The Liberator was Garrison's vehicle for informing the nation of the evils of slavery and the need for abolition.

• Garrison was able to make himself heard throughout the nation via the Liberator.

• Garrison published his paper in Boston because he felt that New England needed the most help and change in

public opinion.(1)

THE LIBERATOR BECAME THE BUGLE CALL FOR

FREEDOM

AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE LEFT OUT OF THE POLITICAL

LIFE IN OUR COUNTRY

ABOLITIONISTS

FREDRICK DOUGLAS

WROTE THE NORTH START

SOJOURNER TRUTH

(to travel)• I did not run off, for I

thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right."

SOJOURNERTRUTH

• HER REAL NAME WAS ISABELLA BAUMFREE

• "The Spirit calls me [East], and I must go."

• Born into slavery and sold many times. She had 13 children

• Isabella had a life-changing religious experience -- becoming "overwhelmed with the greatness of the Divine presence" and inspired to preach

AMENDMENT 13• SLAVERY IS

ABOLISHED

CHURCHES PLAYED A HUGE ROLE IN THE ABOLITIONIST

MOVEMENT

ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT

• WAS STRONGER IN THE NORTH

A

ABOLISITONISTS USED THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO

HELP SLAVE ESCAPE

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

• A SERIES OF ESCAPE ROUTES RUNNING FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH.

• SLAVES WOULD BE LED BY CONDUCTORS (HARRIET TUBMAN) AND STAY IN HOUSES (STATIONS) ALONG THEIR JOURNEY

• 50,000 SLAVES USED THESE ROUTES!

HARRIET TUBMAN

IN THE MID 1840s WOMEN LIKE….

LUCRETIA MOTT

AND

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

STARTED GETTING TOGETHER TO DISCUSS

SLAVERY AND HOW TO END IT!

THE WOMEN STARTED TO ALSO TALK ABOUT WOMENS RIGHTS!• 1. EQUALITY AT WORK

2. EQUALITY AT SCHOOL

• 3. EQUALITY AT CHURCH

• 4. EQUALITY IN LAW5. EQUALITY IN VOTING RIGHTS

• 6. EQUALITY IN GOVERNMENT

• 7. EQUALITY IN PUBLIC LIFE

IN 1848 LUCRETIA MOTT AND ELIZABETH C. STANTON MET IN SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK

• STANTON DELIEVERED A SPEECH CALLED THE DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS!

• THIS WAS MODELED AFTER THE DECLARTION OF INDEPENDECE

IT WILL TAKE 60 MORE YEARS UNTIL WOMEN EARENED THE

RIGHT TO VOTE

WHAT DO I DO NOW?

• 1. OPEN BOOK TO p. 393• 2. OPEN BINDER TO CHAPTER SIXTEEN

QUESTIONS (1-28)• 3. COMPLETE QUESTIONS TO THE BEST OF

YOUR ABILITY!• 4. NEATNESS COUNTS AND THIS IS DUE

TOMORROW! • “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it

not for themselves,” by Abraham Lincoln,