Women's Rights Movement
In the early-mid 1800s, women were denied the right to vote, own property, attend college, and hold most professions
What are the rights women did not have in the early 1800s?
She became an important leader in both the temperance and suffrage movements and was fined $100 for voting illegally.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Abolitionists wanted slavery to be ended immediately or gradually.
What is ending slavery?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this antislavery novel that increased support for abolition in the North.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The Underground Railroad was a network of people and safe houses that helped enslaved people reach freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott began discussing women’s rights after being excluded from this 1840 event.
What is the World Anti‑Slavery Convention?
Born Isabella Baumfree, she traveled the country speaking out against slavery and for women’s rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Congress passed this act in 1807, banning the importation of enslaved people from other countries.
What is the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves?
Southerners responded to Uncle Tom’s Cabin by banning it or calling it misleading.
What is banning it or claiming it was inaccurate?
These people guided freedom‑seekers from one safe house to another.
What are conductors?
Written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848, this document modeled after the Declaration of Independence stated that “all men and women are created equal.”
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
She became the first president of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896.
Who is Mary Church Terrell?
Though importation ended in 1807, slavery in the United States did this—largely due to domestic slave trade.
What is expanded?
This phrase from the Declaration of Sentiments demanded equal rights for men and women.
What is “all men and women are created equal”?
Harriet Tubman personally led many enslaved people to freedom and understood the risks because she had once been enslaved herself.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
She wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century and inspired many early reformers.
Who is Margaret Fuller?
This reformer played a major role in improving treatment of the mentally ill and later served as superintendent of Army nurses during the Civil War.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
A formerly enslaved man, he wrote an autobiography and published the antislavery newspaper The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Historians use primary, secondary, and tertiary sources to understand the past.
What are types of historical sources?
Many freedom‑seekers traveled north to this region and to Canada.
What is the northern United States?
She was an enslaved woman turned activist whose famous but hard‑to‑verify speech is known as “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This abolitionist publisher founded The Liberator and believed the Constitution was corrupted by slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This religious group believed all people were equal and became early leaders against slavery.
Who are the Quakers?
Sojourner Truth’s famous speech is hard to verify because she spoke without this, leaving no original written record.
What is a written manuscript?
Some enslaved people escaped south to Mexico, the Caribbean, or Native American nations, placing them beyond the reach of this U.S. law enforcement threat.
What are slave catchers?