Annie Katzenmeyer
SS4H7 The student will examine the main ideas of the abolitionist and suffrage
movements.
a. Discuss the biographies of Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
b. Explain the significance of Sojourner Truth to the abolition and suffrage
movements.
Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist Movement was from the 1830s-1870s and during this time period, freedom for slaves and racial segregation were sought to be ended. Frederick Douglass played a major part in the emancipation of slaves. This movement was also an attempt to end all forms of discrimination.
http://afgen.com/abmovement.html
http://autocww.colorado.edu/~toldy2/E64ContentFiles/WorldHistory/AbolitionistMovement.html
Woman’s Suffrage Movement
The Woman’s Suffrage Movement was when women were fighting for the same voting rights as men. Voting, at the time, was only for white men who owned property. Woman started coming more interesting in politics so they started this reform saying they had every right to vote too. Women voted for the first time on Election Day in 1920.
http://www.history.com/topics/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage
Harriet Tubman
Known as ‘Moses of Her People’ by the people she led to freedom, Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland. She risked her life and led hundreds of slaves into freedom on the Underground Railroad. She helped more that 300 slaved between the years of 1850-1858. The slaves stayed in ‘safe houses’ as they traveled north to freedom. She became a leader in the abolitionist movement. Harriet Tubman worked for the Union Army as a spy during the civil war.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blharriettubman.htm
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a major part in women’s right and woman’s suffrage starting in the 1840s. She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments which was for women’s rights and modeled after the Declaration of Independence. Stanton worked with Susan B. Anthony after the civil war on woman’s suffrage. They founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association where Stanton served as president. She also fought for property rights for married women, liberalized divorce laws, and equal guardianship of children.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/stantonelizabeth/a/stanton.htm
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth became a traveling preacher. She was a speaker for the abolitionist movement and the women’s suffrage movement. She spoke at a woman’s rights convention in Ohio where she delivered her famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” She also fought against the discrimination of segregation and recruited black troops for the Union Army.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sojournertruth/a/sojourner_truth_bio.htm