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Abolitionist Movement In The 1800s

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Many movements happened in the mid 1800s. The two I think are most important are the Women's Rights movement and the Abolitionism movement.
In the 1800s women starting fighting for their rights. Men were the ones that went out of the house to work on farms and ranches. The women were always at home and they soon got lonely. Then they found out they had some impact at church and they wanted more say and influence. Soon, women realized that women could do everything men did. All these ideas came near the Civil War because most men left shops and farms to go to war and all the women tended what they left behind. This was the beginning of suffrage. After this women started thinking about why they couldn't vote. Leaders of these movements realized …show more content…

This movement was an attempt to end slavery in a country that believed all men are created equal. One of the well known leaders of the Abolitionist movement was Harriet Tubman. She led the underground railroad, which was a system of safe houses for slaves to live and hid in. The runaways would go from house to cave to barn to churches until the got to a free state or Canada. People started to disobey the fugitive law, which requires all Americans to return runaway slave back to their owners. The Abolitionism movement spread throughout the country. Many Abolitionist newspapers and pamphlets were published. People were trying to prove that one person owning another was morally wrong, they were trying to show that colored people are human too. One colored man named David Walker told slaves to rise up against their owners he said, “It is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.” Soon the Civil War broke out a little under two years in Lincoln, the current president of the United States, he published the Emancipation Proclamation. This proclamation freed all slaves that lived/worked in the areas of where the nation is in rebellion. People didn’t have to turn in the runaway slaves and slaves in areas that were just seized are now free. On December 18, 1865 the thirteenth Amendment was ratified. This ended slavery in the

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