Abolitionist and Suffrage Movement (ppt)

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The Abolitionist and Suffrage Movements
and the work of three women.
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In the early 1800s, the United States of America
grew in size, population, and industry.
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People also wanted AMERICA to grow in GREATNESS.
At this time, the freedoms and rights promised in
the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution and the Amendments were not given to
all Americans.
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Slavery was legal in the land of the free.
Slavery is the opposite of liberty!
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There were people who wanted to ABOLISH, or END,
slavery. They were called abolitionists. They
worked for the Abolitionist Movement.
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Do women have rights?
Women were NOT ALLOWED to VOTE in the United
States.
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The right to vote is called suffrage. The
Womens Suffrage Movement worked to GIVE
women the right to vote.
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In this presentation we will meet three Americans
who worked to abolish slavery and for women
to have the right to vote.
Abolitionists
Suffragists
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A runaway slave
A preacher
A teacher
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Harriet Tubman
was runaway slave from Maryland who became known
as the "Moses of her People. She led hundreds
of slaves to freedom along the Underground
Railroad. Harriet Tubman later became a leader
in the abolitionist movement. During the Civil
War she was a spy for the federal forces in South
Carolina as well as a nurse.
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one
of two things I had a right to, liberty or
death if I could not have one, I would have the
other. Harriet Tubman
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
was a teacher who believed women should have the
same voting rights as men. She was a writer
who used words to protest what was wrong with
America and how it could become
better. Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the face
of the Womens Suffrage Movement.
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident that
all men and women are created equal... 1848
Seneca Falls Declaration Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Sojourner Truth
Isabella Bomefree was born a slave in New York
and sold 4 times before she obtained her freedom.
She changed her name to Sojourner Truth
and planned to travel the land sharing the truth.
She became a powerful speaker for both
the Abolitionist and Suffrage movements. She
helped runaway slaves find housing and served
as a counselor to freed slaves and a lecturer in
the North. She never stopped trying to improve
the conditions for African Americans and
women.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails. Sojourner Truth
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These women dedicated their lives to improve the
conditions for African Americans and women in
the United States.
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The ACTIONS, WORDS, and SACRIFICES of Harriet
Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, and those of others working for
the Abolitionist and Suffrage Movements, helped
to make America a greater country for ALL its
people.