Friday March 26 SOL booklet Who was a journalist and author of Common Sense? 105.Who was a prominent member of the Continental Congress who helped frame the D of I? 106.Who was a former slave who wrote poems and plays during the Rev? 107.Who was a patriot who made a daring ride to warn colonists of British arrival crying “The British are coming!”? Thomas Paine Benjamin Franklin Phyllis Wheatley Paul Revere

Writing #6 Are well equal? What does it really mean to you that “all men are created equal”? How does this phrase make you feel? Do you think people are always treated equally? How or how not? Write at least a paragraph describing your feelings about this.

Are all people created EQUAL? Reform USI.8d

What were the main ideas expressed by the abolitionists?

Vocabulary Abolitionist – Someone who fought to end slavery

Key ideas behind the Abolitionist Movement 1.Many abolitionists believed that slaves should be freed immediately

Key ideas behind the Abolitionist Movement Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong 2.Morally wrong 3.Cruel and inhumane 4.Violated principles of democracy (created equal)

Harriet Tubman A slave, she escaped in 1849 and became one of the most successful “conductors” on the Underground Railroad. Abolitionists leaders included men and women

William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator Took a stand for immediate and complete abolition of slavery

Frederick Douglass A fugitive slave Established a newspaper and gave speeches against slavery.

Suffrage Movement USI.8d Reform

USI.8d What do I need to understand? The suffrage movement helped women gain equal rights.

Vocabulary Suffrage – the right to vote

What were the main ideas expressed during the suffrage movement? “All men and women are created equal”

Key ideas behind the suffragist movement Women were deprived of basic rights 1)Right to vote 2)Educational opportunities—especially higher education (college)

Key ideas behind the suffragist movement Women were deprived of basic rights 3)Equal opportunities in business 4)rights to own property independently

Leaders of the Suffrage Movement The movement was led by strong women who began their campaign before the Civil War and continued after the war ended.

Isabel Sojourner Truth Wanted emancipation and women’s rights

Susan B. Anthony Lectured on women’s rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Called the first women’s right convention in the United States—Seneca Falls, N.Y. President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Stanton often served as the writer and Anthony as the strategist in this effective working relationship