THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Women felt enslaved
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Women disliked white politicians
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Women thought slavery was immoral
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Women thought slave children should go to school
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Detailed explanation-1: -Women abolitionist activities affirmed the power of women to enact social change on a political spectrum. Along with anti-slavery fairs and public speaking, women abolitionists worked in petition campaigns. The practice of petitioning was weaponized by radical abolitionists in the 1830s.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the Civil War, reformers focused on the war effort rather than organizing women’s rights meetings. Many woman’s rights activists supported the abolition of slavery, so they rallied to ensure that the war would end this inhumane practice.
Detailed explanation-3: -Abolitionist activities. In the 1830s, the PFASS largely focused on circulating antislavery petitions, holding public meetings, organizing fundraising efforts, and financially supporting community improvement for free blacks.
Detailed explanation-4: -The women’s rights movement was the offspring of abolition. Many people actively supported both reforms. Several participants in the 1848 First Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls had already labored in the anti-slavery movement.