Chapter 14: A New Spirit of Change Section 3: Abolition and Women’s Rights
Vocabulary abolition: the movement to stop slavery suffrage: the right to vote
Abolitionists Protest Slavery William Lloyd Garrison: published The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper Former President John Quincy Adams: introduced an amendment to abolish slavery and defended the Africans that rebelled on Amistad Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth: former slaves who lectured and wrote against slavery
Underground Railroad Escape routes for slaves from South to North Stations: safe houses Conductors: people who helps slaves along the way Harriet Tubman: made 19 journeys into the south to free enslaved persons
The Fight for Women’s Rights Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton: famous women abolitionists women . . . Could not vote Hold public office Gave all property and wages to husband Seneca Falls Convention: (July 1848): worlds first convention on the rights of women Declaration of Sentiments demanded equal rights for women, especially suffrage