Woman’s Suffrage and the Abolitionist Movement
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Lesson 5 Suffrage Unit
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Woman’s Suffrage and the Abolitionist Movement. Lesson 5 Suffrage Unit. The beginnings…. Suffrage and the woman’s sphere- slavery is not moral! Abolitionist leaders like Lucy Stone, the Grimke Sisters, and Susan B. Anthony advocated for universal suffrage - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Lesson 5Suffrage Unit
Suffrage and the woman’s sphere- slavery is not moral!
Abolitionist leaders like Lucy Stone, the Grimke Sisters, and Susan B. Anthony advocated for universal suffrage
1837- First National Female Anti-Slavery Society Convention held in NYC
1851 Sojourner Truth gave a speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Ohio “Ain’t I a Woman?”
1852 Connecticut’s Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This novel changed the attitudes of many Americans about slavery
www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/
Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass are friends and political allies
1866 the American Equal Rights Association is formed to promote universal suffrage for all genders and races
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are key in this organization’s founding
Frederick Douglass is a regular speaker at women’s suffrage events
1868 the Fourteenth Amendment specified citizens and voters as males
The wording of this amendment upset suffragists and split the party into two factions
NWSA was started by Anthony and Cady Stanton in NYC
Stone and Julia Ward Howe started AWSA in Boston
The fifteenth Amendment enfranchises black men but excludes all women, white and black
NWSA disagrees and Anthony makes some remarks against black men that ends her friendship with Douglass
Half of suffragists believe that black men needed the vote more than white women
“It is the Negro’s hour”- what does this mean? Do you agree?
