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The Abolitionist Movement &Women’s Suffrage
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Abolitionist Movement
Abolitionist movement is associated with the desire to get rid of slavery
Centered in Britain and the northern USA
Many people realized the immorality of owning another human
New media like newspapers drummed up public support
Britain abolishes slavery in 1834
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Women’s Suffrage• Many women in the West (Europe and
their colonies with lots of European settlers like Australia, USA, Latin America, etc.) were well literate/educated
• They wanted to be involved in the abolitionist movement, but men kept them out
• They decided they needed to focus on getting the right to vote
• Emmeline Pankhurst in England = leader
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Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton• Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 = first women’s
rights convention led by Susan B. Anthony SBA- was fined for illegally voting in the 1872
presidential election. Anthony & Cady-Stanton opposed the 14th & 15th
Amendments & together they formed the National American Women Suffrage Association.
ECS- Author of the Declaration of Sentiments- ignited the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States
Her concerns included women's custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, and birth control.
Women would not find full success until after World War I
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