…and the work of three women.

In the early 1800s, the United States of America

grew in size,

population,

and industry.

People also wanted

AMERICA to grow in GREATNESS.

At this time, the freedoms and rights promised in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution

and the Amendments were not given to all Americans.

Slavery was legal

in the land of the free.

There were people who wanted to ABOLISH, or

END, slavery. They were called abolitionists.

They worked for the Abolitionist Movement..

Women were NOT ALLOWED to

VOTE in the United States.

The rightto voteis called

suffrage.

The

Women’sSuffrageMovementworkedto GIVE women

the right to vote.

In this presentation we will meet three

Americans who worked to

abolish slavery

and forwomen to have the right to vote.

A runaway slave

A preacherA teacher

was runaway slave from Maryland who

became known as the "Moses of her People.”

She led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman later became a leader

in the abolitionist movement.

During the Civil War she was a spy for the federal forces in South Carolina as

well as a nurse.

I had reasoned this out in my mind,there was one of two thingsI had a right to,liberty or death;if I could not have one,I would have the other. Harriet Tubman

was a teacher who believed women should have

the same voting rights as men. She was a writer who used words to protest whatwas wrong with America and how it couldbecome better.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton became “the face” of the

Women’s Suffrage Movement.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident:

that all men and women are created equal...“1848 Seneca Falls DeclarationElizabeth Cady Stanton

Isabella Bomefree was born a slave in New York

and sold 4 times before she obtained her freedom.

She changed her name to Sojourner Truth and

planned to travel the land sharing the truth.

She became a powerful speaker for both the

Abolitionist and Suffrage movements.

She helped runaway slaves find housing and served asa counselor to freed slaves and a lecturer in the North.

She never stopped trying to improve the conditionsfor African Americans and women.

Truth is powerfuland it prevails.Sojourner Truth

These women dedicated theirlives to improve the conditions forAfrican Americans and women in the United States.

The ACTIONS,WORDS,and

SACRIFICESof

Harriet Tubman,Sojourner Truth,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,and those of othersworking for the

Abolitionist and Suffrage Movements,

helped to make America a greater country

for ALL its people.