1. Abolition and Women’s rights
Written by: Period 6

2. Abolitionists call for ending slavery (Lizards)
Abolitionists are people who support anti- slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist paper.
In 1829, David Walker published a pamphlet urging slaves to revolt. It reached as far as the South. He died mysteriously.
John Quincy Adams successfully defended a group of slaves that had rebelled on the slave ship Amistad.

3. Eyewitnesses to Slavery (rabbits)
Frederick Douglass, a former slave, had a career as a speaker against slavery.
In 1845, he published his autobiography sharing his experiences as a slave.
Sojourner Truth, also a former slave, escaped to go live with the Quakers, who her free.
The Quakers helped her get her son back, who had been illegally sold into slavery.
She was also a speaker against slavery. She had changed her name from Isabella to reflect her life’s work against slavery.

4. The Underground railroad (coyotes)
The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad.
It was a series of escape routes from the South to the North.
Henry ‘Box’ Brown shipped himself in a 2 ½ X 2 ft. box to Philadelphia.
In Rochester, NY, Frederick Douglass would house up to 11 runaway slaves at a time.

5. Harriet tubman (deer)
Harriet Tubman was a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Born into slavery in Maryland.
In 1849 she escaped.
She made 19 dangerous journeys to help runaway slaves.
She had a $40,000 bounty on her head but eluded capture.

6. Women reformers face barriers (javelinas)
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840.
Men claimed it was not a woman’s place to speak in public and made them sit behind a curtain. William Lloyd Garrison joined them in support of women’s rights.

7. The seneca falls convention (squirrels)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott held the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights in 1848.
100 – 300 men and women attended.
They rewrote the Declaration of Independence and called it the Declaration of Sentiments & Resolutions.
All issues were supported except the right for women to vote. Men were against this.
Frederick Douglass also fought for women’s rights.

8. Continued calls for women’s rights (snakes)
Sojourner Truth spoke at a convention for women’s rights in Ohio.
Susan B. Anthony built the women’s movement into a national organization. She argued that women must have their own money.
Maria Mitchell, scientist, was the first woman elected to the Academy of Arts and Science.
By 1865 women had some rights and slavery was abolished.

9. The underground railroad, continued (tortoises)
The Underground Railroad helped slaves escape slavery into freedom.
Not many slaves escaped from far in the South.
Slaves escaped to Canada.
40,000 to 100,000 people used the Underground Railroad to escape slavery.