Section 5
What are abolitionists?
a person who supported abolition, or the end of slavery
What was the newspaper Frederick Douglass started called?
North Star
What did the Grimke Sisters start to realize?
women and slaves had much in common
What people arrives at the convention in Seneca Falls?
abolitionists, Quakers, local housewives, farmers, factory workers, other reformers
In what year did Quakers stop owning slaves?
1776
Who is Sojourner Truth?
a former slave
What did fathers and husbands of the women abolitionists control?
money, property
What did Stanton propose?
women should have the right to vote
What did Northern textile mills want from the South?
cheap cotton that slave labor provided
What were women inspired by involving a fight against slavery?
religious reform movements
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The gathering of supporters of women’s rights that launched the movement for women’s right to vote
What did the Seneca Falls Convention help to create?
an organized campaign for women's rights
What did William Lloyd Garrison start?
fiery abolitionist paper called The Liberator which called not only for an end to slavery, but full equality for African Americans
Where was Angelina Grimkes raised?
slave holding family in South Carolina
What did Lucy Stone refuse to do?
pay property taxes
What was Sojourner Truth's speech called?
"Aint I A Woman?"
Who was the escaped slave that Garrison heard about?
Frederick Douglass
What did the antislavery fights help pave the way to?
Women's Rights Movements
What did Elizabeth Blackwell study?
math, science, history
Out of all the women who signed the declaration at the convention, who was the only one that lived to vote?
Charlotte Woodward