Name three important leaders in the suffrage movement in the 1800s.

Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sojourner Truth

What were the main goals and ideas of the suffrage movement in the 1800s.?

  • Women’s right to vote
  • Women’s right to own property
  • Women’s right to education and college
  • Women’s right in business

When did the Suffrage movement begin?

 

 

Before the Civil War

Name three important abolitionist

  • Frederick Douglas
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Harriet Tubman

What were the main ideas of the abolitionists?

  • Slavery was cruel and inhumane
  • Slavery should end now
  • Slavery violated the principles of democracy
  • Slavery was morally wrong.

What famous accomplishments did Harriet Tubman have?

  • Helped slaves escape for 10 years on the underground railroad
  • Was a spy in the Civil War for the Union
  • A nurse in the Civil War

Frederick Douglas is well known because he

 

 

  • Was an abolitionist

 

The Suffrage movement was PRIMARILY concerned with:

Getting the right to vote for women

People who wanted to abolish slavery and opposed it were called.

 

Abolitionists

Why did abolitionists oppose slavery?

Slavery violated the basic principles of democracy

What helped women gain equal rights, such as the right to vote, the right to own property, and have equal access to educational and business opportunities?

 

The Suffrage Movement

Read the words and decide what TITLE you would give to this topic:

Elizabeth Stanton

Isabel Sojourner Truth

Susan B. Antony

 

The Suffragists

This famous suffragist was a former slave who became a preacher.

SojournerTruth

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal"

 

These words were the belief of what reform movement?

 

The Suffrage Movement

 

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