US history and government unit 6 the progressive era and reform (1900-1920)

the abolitionist movement goal
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the abolitionist movement goal
ending the institution of slavery in the united states
William Lloyd Garrison
1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
..., an organization that blamed alcohol for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children, and fought against it.
Carrie Nation
Founded WCTU to outlaw selling/drinking alcohol. She was married to an abusive man that she killed with an axe and she didn't get punished for it. She formed a group that walked into bars with axes.
18th Amendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
Prohibition
A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
21st Amendment
Repeal of Prohibition
Seneca Falls Convention
(1848) the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written
Lucretia Mott
A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) A suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men and women to be equal and demanded the right to vote for women. Co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony in 1869.Susan B. Anthonysocial reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation19th amendendmentwomen right to voteCarrie Chapman Catt(1859-1947) A suffragette who was president of the National Women's Suffrage Association, and founder of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Instrumental in obtaining passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.Alice Paul and Lucy BurnsThey created the New Women's Party Worked to get women the right to voteNational Women PartyFight to help women gain rightsGranger Movemnetimprove conditions for farmers by forcing railroads to lower their rates