1. Chapter 14: A New Spirit of Change
Section 3: Abolition and Women’s Rights

2. Vocabulary
abolition: the movement to stop slavery suffrage: the right to vote

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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