The Age of Reform Mr. Webster’s Class. The Age of Reform During the early to mid-1800s, a new...
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The Age of Reform Mr. Webster’s Class. The Age of Reform During the early to mid-1800s, a new spirit of reform took hold in the United States. This spirit
The Age of Reform During the early to mid-1800s, a new spirit
of reform took hold in the United States. This spirit brought
changes to American religion, education, and literature. During
this time period, American artists also began exploring American
topics and developed a purely American style.
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The Abolition Movement Among the reformers of the 1800s were
abolitionists, who sought the end of slavery. Even before the
Revolution, some Americans had tried to limit or end slavery. By
the early 1800s, the Northern states had officially ended slavery
there. The reform movement of the early and mid- 1800s gave new
life to the antislavery cause. A growing number of Americans were
coming to believe that slavery was wrong.
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The Colonization Plan In 1816, a group of powerful whites
formed the American Colonization society to send free African
Americans to Africa to start new lives. The society acquired land
for a colony, and the first settlers arrived in Liberia in 1822. In
1847, Liberia declared itself an independent republic. The
Colonization Society did not stop the growth of slavery, and in the
end, only about 10,000 formers slaves resettled in Africa.
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Uncle Toms Cabin By the 1830s, slavery was Americas most
pressing social issue. Many abolitionists influenced public opinion
through writing. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowes novel Uncle Toms
Cabin became a wildly popular best-seller. The book portrayed
slavery as a cruel and brutal system. Sale of it was banned in the
South.
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Frederick Douglass Free African Americans in the North
especially supported the goal of abolition. Frederick Douglass is
the best-known African American abolitionist. Born into slavery in
Maryland, Douglass escaped to freedom and settled first in
Massachusetts. Douglas became a powerful speaker and he often spoke
at abolitionist meetings and prestigious events.
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Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth was another powerful voice for
abolition. Truths given name was Isabella Baumfree, and she was
born into slavery in Ulster County, New York. Baumfree escaped to
freedom as a young adult, and became a leading spokesperson for the
abolitionist and womens rights movements. In 1843, Baumfree chose a
new name for herself: Sojourner Truth. She chose this name because
she felt the Lord chose her to declare the truth to people.
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Defending Slavery White Southerners fought abolitionism with
arguments in defense of slavery. White Southerners argued that
slavery was necessary to the Southern economy, and that enslaved
people were treated well. Many whites also believed that African
Americans were better off under white care than on their own.
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Womens Rights / The Seneca Falls Convention In 1848, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott helped organize the first womens
rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY. The convention issued a
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, which called for an end
to laws that discriminated against women. The declaration also
included a demand for womens suffrage.
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The Growth of the Womens Movement The Seneca Falls Convention
helped launch a wider movement. Among the movements leaders was
Susan B. Anthony. Anthony called for equal pay and college training
for women, as well as coeducation. Opportunities for women
increased greatly in the late 1800s. In 1890, Wyoming became the
first state to grant suffrage to women.
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Women Make Gains Prior to the mid-1800s, women had few rights.
They depended on men for support, and anything a woman owned became
the property of her husbands when she married. Women had few
options if they were in an unhappy or abusive relationship. Women
also had few career choices. Slowly but surely, this began to
change in the mid- to late-1800s.
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Create Your Own Abolitionist Newsletter worth 30 points For
this assignment, you must read through the sources you have been
provided, and imagine that you are an abolitionist living in the
early to mid-1800s. You have decided to create your own newsletter
to spread your thoughts and ideas on abolition. Your newsletter
should be 1-page (both front and back), and it should contain an
article (or series of articles) that will hopefully convince others
to join the abolitionist cause. Your article can be in the form of
a news story or a persuasive essay, or it can be a combination of
both. You may also include a poem or illustration (similar to those
you have been provided) as well to help get your point across. The
illustration, however, should not take a large amount of space. I
will be grading as follows: Accuracy and Relevancy of Content 10
points Completeness (1-page front and back) 10 points Grammar &
Punctuation 5 points Neatness / Creativity 5 points