Chapter 14 Three Major Social Topics Immigration Abolition Women’s Rights
An issue that is still around today… Source: accessed 18 March
Immigration Word for conceptWord for person Going inimmigrationimmigrant Exitingemigrationemigrant
Push-Pull Factors Pull Factors 1.Freedom 2.Economic Opportunity 3.Abundant Land Push Factors 1.Population growth 2.Agricultural changes 3.Crop failures 4.Industrial Revolution 5.Religious and political turmoil
Push-Pull Factors in Current Times Source: accessed 18 March 2013.
(Back to the 1800s) Immigration by Country of Origin Data Source: Creating America textbook, page 409.
Immigration by Year
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Nativism Know-Nothings American Party Source: accessed 14 March
Abolition What does it mean to abolish something? What was the abolition movement trying to abolish?
Important Abolitionists Frederick Douglass Source: content/uploads/2012/03/Frederick_Dougl ass_c1860s.jpg, accessed 23 March content/uploads/2012/03/Frederick_Dougl ass_c1860s.jpg Source: m-lloyd-garrison , accessed 23 March m-lloyd-garrison William Lloyd Garrison Source: bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10 44, accessed 23 March bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10 44 Sojourner Truth
William Lloyd Garrison
Sojourner Truth Ex slave Spoke for women’s rights and the aboltion movement
Nat Turner’s Rebellion Slave rebellion Virginia, 1831 Nat Turner and about 70 followers Killed 55 white people –men, women, and children Most rebels were captured or killed. Nat Turner was hanged. Long-term effect: increased fear of slave rebellion among white Southerners
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Key Women Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lurcretia Mott Susan B. Anthony
Women’s Rights Seneca Falls Convention –Seneca Falls, NY –1848 –Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott –Declaration of Sentiments Source: /10/01/seneca-falls-convention-1848/, accessed 14 March /10/01/seneca-falls-convention-1848/
Side by Side Comparison Declaration of Independence When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one person to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Declaration of Sentiments When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied…they should declare the causes with impel them to such a course