1. JUST DO IT! Take out your SOL Wrap Up Packets for me to check!
Using the packets on your desk and the last page of your notes packet, complete the chart! You may work together!

2. Slavery & Abolition—Women & Reform
Session 5: Expansion & The Age of Jackson
Sections 8.2 & 8.3

3. Objectives Identify key abolitionists Compare urban vs. rural slaves
Explain why women’s opportunities were limited in the mid-1800’s
Identify the reform movements that women participated in
Describe the progress of the women’s rights movement

4. Section 8.2 - Slavery & Abolition
Main Idea
Slavery became an explosive issue, as Southerners increasingly defended it, while Northerners increasingly attacked it.
In addition, the abolition movement gained momentum in attempting to end slavery.

5. Abolitionists Speak Out
movement to outlaw slavery that gained momentum in the 1830s
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist Movement

6. William Lloyd Garrison
White abolitionist and newspaper editor in Boston, Massachusetts
In 1831, he began publishing The Liberator, a newspaper that called for immediate, uncompensated, EMANCIPATION (freeing of slaves)
In 1833, he started the American Anti-Slavery Society, a group of white and black members who were committed to ending slavery

7. Frederick Douglass
American abolitionist and escaped slave from Maryland who became a public speaker for the American Anti-Slavery Society
Eventually published his own newspaper, The Northstar

8. Life Under Slavery
U.S. had 2 million slaves by 1830, and by 1860, the U.S. had 4 million slaves
Most slaves had been born in the U.S., spoke English, and worked on plantations
Marriage allowed but not legally protected by law

9. Plantation Slavery Plantation (rural) slavery
Slaves worked from dawn until dusk in the fields
A white overseer or slave driver was placed in charge of work crews to make sure slaves worked throughout the day

10. Urban Slavery Some skilled jobs in cities were opened up for slaves
Mill work, shipping, carpentry, blacksmithing
Slave owners hired out their slaves to factory owners

11. Slave Rebellions Stono Rebellion Gabriel Prosser Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner’s Rebellion

12. Stono Rebellion
(1739) – 20 slaves in South Carolina tried to escape to Spanish controlled Florida
all were captured and killed, then beheaded
Sometimes called Cato's Conspiracy
Stono Rebellion

13. Gabriel Prosser (1800) – plotted to take over Richmond, Virginia
Captured and killed

14. Denmark Vesey (1820) – plotted to take over Charleston, South Carolina
He and his followers were captured and killed before they rebelled

15. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
(1831) – 80 slaves in Virginia attacked several plantations, killing 60 whites
State militia captured Turner and his followers
Put on trial, convicted, and hanged

16. Significance of Turner’s Rebellion
White on black violence erupted (200 blacks killed)
Southern whites determined to defend the institution of slavery
Slave Codes – state laws passed to restrict slaves’ activities

17. Section 8.3 - Women and Reform
Main Idea
At the same time the abolitionist and temperance movements grew, another reform movement to give equal rights to women took root.
This became known as the women’s suffrage (right to vote) movement.

18. Women’s Roles in the Mid-1800s
Cult of Domesticity: dominant idea of the 1800s that married women were restricted to housework and child care
No political rights for women – no right to vote

19. Women’s Roles in the Mid-1800’s
Women participated in the:
Abolition Movement
Education Movement
Temperance Movement

20. Abolition Movement Women active in trying to abolish slavery
Women spoke out against slavery, raised money, distributed literature, and collected signatures for petitions to Congress
The abolitionist cause became a powerful spur to other reform causes

21. Education for Women
Women became active in pushing for more educational opportunities for women
Sarah Grimke ran a school for women and wrote Letters on the Equality of Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1838)
She was also an abolitionist!
Emma Willard opened the The Troy Female Seminary, one of the first academically rigorous schools for girls
Oberlin College, in Ohio, submits four women in 1837, becoming the nation’s first coed college
African American women faced greater obstacles getting an education

22. Temperance Movement
Women became active in Temperance Movement, the effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol
The American Temperance Society is founded in 1826, and by 1833 there were ~6,000 local temperance societies across the U.S.
Held rallies, produced pamphlets, and brought about decline in alcohol consumption

23. Women’s Role in the Mid-1800’s
Significance – Participation in these social movements provided women with the opportunity to become active outside of the home, which helped lead to the push for increased rights.

24. Women’s Rights Movement Emerges
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention
Susan B. Anthony

25. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Attended an anti-slavery convention in Great Britain, the World’s Anti- Slavery Convention in 1840, where women were discriminated against
Decided to form a women’s rights convention and establish a women’s rights movement

26. World Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840
William Lloyd Garrison

27. Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention (1848) was a women’s right convention held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Women there drafted the Declaration of Sentiments to call for increased women’s rights including the right to vote
Based on the Declaration of Independence
“We hold these truths to be self- evident: that all men and women are created equal.”

28. Susan B. Anthony
Became a leading advocate for women’s suffrage in the mid to late 1800s
Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded NAWSA, (National American Woman Suffrage Association) in 1890

29. Homework: Entire SOL Wrap Up Packet Due!
Complete Summary and Questions sections of notes!