Chapter 14 Presentation Thandiwe Seagraves, Mindy Bilbo, Genevieve Barrera, Jason Martinez, Carl Encarnacion

Women Suffrage Suffrage is the right to vote. for WOMEN Suffrage is the right to vote. In the 1800’s, women had almost no political rights. They were not allowed to vote, sit on juries, or hold public office. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott started the fight for women’s rights. Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Maria Mitchell were very powerful women rights activists. They spoke at women’s rights conventions to give women equal political and social rights as men. Although their actions gained many rights for women, discrimination towards women is still very common today.

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a famous conductor of the underground railroad. She helped slaves escape from their owners and to land where slavery was illeag When she was thirteen she tried to save a slave from punishment. She was born into slavery in Maryland She always tried to help

Immigrants and Emigrants People who leave a country are called emigrants and people who settle in a new country are called immigrants. Most immigrants traveled to America in steerage, on the cheapest deck of a ship. During the mid-1800’s, people mainly from Europe, came to America due to push and pull factors. They wanted to leave behind crop failures, growing population, and religious and political unrest (push factors) for freedom and land (pull factors). Nativists, those who wanted to eliminate foreign influence, were very prejudiced against immigrants.

Romanticism Romanticism is a style of European art that stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. Washington Irving was a writer. He was influenced by romanticism. He helped to win European respect for American writing.

Slavery Abolition was the movement to end slavery, which began in the late 1700’s. Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist who published an autobiography to prove that he was a former slave. His public speaking skills won him a career as a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Sojourner Truth was also an abolitionist who joined the Quakers to be free of slavery. Sojourner continued speaking for abolition, which attracted many people in the North.

Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was an aboveground series of escape routes from the South to the North. Some brave people supported slaves to escape for their freedom. Runaways usually escaped at night and hid in stations during daytime. These stations can be stables, attics, and cellars. Some slaves found unusual ways of escaping, such as Henry Brown. He spent several hours travelling inside a box being shipped to Philadelphia.

Second Great Awakening The renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s was called the Second Great Awakening. Preachers said that anyone could choose salvation. This appealed to equality-loving Americans Peter Cartwright was one of the most influential preachers during this time. The churches started the temperance movement, which was supposed to stop the consumption of alcohol

Improving Education In 1837,Massachusetts set up a school board with Horace Mann as the leader. Many states had private colleges in the decades following 1821. It was illegal for women to attend college until the late 1800s Few colleges accepted African Americans. The first African American to get a degree was Alexander Twilight in 1823

Irish Potato Famine The irish Potatoe Famine was the one of the biggest cause of death. About one million people died

Worker’s Rights