Suffrage / Abolition
What was significant about Seneca Falls for the women’s rights movement?
It was where women publicly demanded equal rights
How did Frederick Douglass help the abolitionist movement?
Where were a majority of factories and mill towns in the United States?
Manufacturing was a key part of the economy in the Northeast.
In the excerpt, Susan B. Anthony expresses interest in which action?
One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one. The women, dissatisfied as they are with this form of government, that enforces taxation without representation,-that compels them to obey laws to which they have never given their consent … are this half of the people left wholly at the mercy of the other half, in direct violation of the spirit and letter of the declarations of the framers of this government, every one of which was based on the immutable principle of equal rights to all.
Ensuring that equal rights are not denied to women
Based on the excerpt, what difference does Douglass see between slaveholders in the South and non-slaveholders in the North?
Like the non-slaveholders at the south, in holding no slaves, I suppose the northern people like them, also, in poverty and degradation. Judge, then, of my amazement and joy, when I found—as I did find—the very laboring population of New Bedford living in better houses, more elegantly furnished—surrounded by more comfort and refinement—than a majority of the slaveholders on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. There was my friend, Mr. Johnson, himself a colored man (who at the south would have been regarded as a proper marketable commodity), who lived in a better house—dined at a richer board—was the owner of more books—the reader of more newspapers—was more conversant with the political and social condition of this nation and the world—than nine-tenths of all the slaveholders of Talbot county, Maryland. Yet Mr. Johnson was a working man, and his hands were hardened by honest toil.
Non-slaveholders in the North have a higher standard of living
How did the ideals of the Second Great Awakening impact social reform movements in the 1800s?
The belief that one's actions mattered made people want to improve society.
Which sentence summarizes Stanton’s argument about the cause of the women’s suffrage movement in this excerpt?
"I should feel exceedingly diffident to appear before you at this time, … did I not feel the time had fully come for the question of woman’s wrongs to be laid before the public, did I not believe that woman herself must do this work; for woman alone can understand the height, the depth, the length, and the breadth of her own degradation. Man cannot speak for her, because he has been educated to believe that she differs from him so materially, that he cannot judge of her thoughts, feelings, and opinions by his own."
Women felt that the time had come to describe their experiences in their own words and to make their voices heard.
What claim did Southerners make about William Lloyd Garrison?
In 1842, a Massachusetts court declared that workers had the right to strike. What impact did this decision have?
Workers could organize into unions and demand better pay and treatment.
How did the cotton gin effect cotton production and slavery?
Southern plantations expanded leading to increased use and need of enslaved workers.
What were some reasons the Southern states passed the slave codes?
To keep enslaved African Americans from rebelling.
What were the primary causes for the growth of cities in the North?
Growth of industrialization/factories as well we immigration lead to the growth of cities in the north.
How did some abolitionists try to enact a gradual end to slavery?
By keeping slavery out of the Western Territories.
What was the primary rout/direction that most enslaved people took to escape slavery?
Most enslaved people fled to the north to escape slavery.
What does the excerpt show about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad?
"A large majority of the white laboring class on the Pacific Coast find more profitable and congenial employment in mining and agricultural pursuits, than in railroad work. The greater portion of the laborers employed by us are Chinese who constitute a large element of the population of California. Without them it would be impossible to complete the western portion of this great national enterprise within the time required by the Acts of Congress."
The Chinese immigrants were key to the construction of the railroad.