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 Abolition – or a complete end to slavery  American Anti-Slavery Society – Its members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African.

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1  Abolition – or a complete end to slavery  American Anti-Slavery Society – Its members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans  The Quakers were among the first group to challenge slavery on religious grounds.

2  Antislavery reformers did not always agree on the details. They differed how much equality they thought African Americans should have like full political and or social equalities.

3  The organization was not an actual railroad but was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives, or escaped slaves  William Lloyd Garrison – published an antislavery newspaper and helped found American Anti-Slavery Society

4  Congress took action to block abolitionist by creating gag orders to ban talk of antislavery petitions  Some Americans opposed equality for African Americans because they had racist attitudes, feared losing jobs and saw slavery as vital to South's’ Economy

5  In 1838, Sarah Grimke published a pamphlet arguing for equal rights for women. She titled it Letters on the Equality of the sexes and the Condition of Women  Seneca Falls Convention – the first public meeting about women’s right held in the United States

6  Declaration of Sentiments – This document detailed beliefs about social injustice toward women  Sojoumer Truth was a public speaker and supporter of both, abolition and the women’s rights movement

7  Female abolitionist found they were denied some rights which helped influence women to demand rights  What limitations on women’s right did many activist find unacceptable  were they lacked the right to vote  married women lost control of money and property,  limited educational opportunities  pay inequalities

8  Question and Answers  Page 459, Questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b  Page 466, Questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a  Page 469, Questions 1-3, 4a, 4b, 5a, 6a, 6b, 7a, 8a, 10  Page 471, Questions 1-6


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