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Ch. 5-3: Birth of the American Reform Movement

Explore the Seneca Falls Convention, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, and their call for gender equality. Learn about the abolitionist movement and the key figures such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and John Brown.

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Ch. 5-3: Birth of the American Reform Movement

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  1. Ch. 5-3: Birth of the American Reform Movement • Women were not permitted to vote in federal elections until 1920. • They were very active in reform movements.

  2. Seneca Falls Convention (1848) • Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott • Preached “all men and women are created equal.” • Women become active in the abolitionist movement. • Declaration of Sentiments- called for equality for men and women.

  3. Stanton and Mott

  4. Mentally ill • Led by Dorothea Dix • Mentally ill were treated like animals • Asylums were created by the states and began to supervise the care of the mentally ill

  5. Dorothea Dix

  6. Conflict Over Slavery • South- slaves were viewed as property • North- felt it was morally wrong • Abolitionist- northerners who wanted slavery abolished.

  7. Abolitionist Leaders • Harriet Beecher Stowe- wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin (account of slavery) • Very controversial in the south • Lincoln described her as the “little women whose book made such a great war.”

  8. Harriet Beecher Stowe

  9. Harriet Tubman • Escaped from slavery • Leader of the Underground Railroad • Helped free hundreds of slaves during the Civil War

  10. Harriet Tubman

  11. Abolitionists Leaders • Frederick Douglas was a former slave who wanted to abolish slavery • William Lloyd Garrison was a white northerner who also wanted to abolish slavery • Both wrote articles and newspaper preaching abolitionism

  12. Frederick Douglas

  13. William Lloyd Garrison

  14. John Brown (Martyr) • White abolitionist who used violence • Harpers Ferry 1859- attacked a federal arsenal to lead an armed revolt but failed and he was captured • Tried & hung but seen as a hero

  15. John Brown

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