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

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.

4. 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.

5. Stanton and Mott

6. 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

7. Dorothea Dix

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

10. 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.”

11. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

13. Harriet Tubman

14. 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

15. Frederick Douglas

16. William Lloyd Garrison

17. 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

18. John Brown