Abolitionist to Women's Rights PDF

NAME:_________________________________________________PER:____DATE:________________ AIM: How did the abolitionist movement lead to the early women's rights movement? ACTIVITY 1: DO NOW Directions: Answer the questions below. 1. What is being advertised...

NAME:_________________________________________________PER:____DATE:________________ AIM: How did the abolitionist movement lead to the early women's rights movement? ACTIVITY 1: DO NOW Directions: Answer the questions below. 1. What is being advertised in this pamphlet? 2. Explain what you think the purpose of an ‘abolitionist’ meeting is. Explain what would be discussed at an abolitionist meeting. 3. Predict how abolitionist meetings in the North will lead to further tension between the North and South. SOURCE: Public Domain courtesy of the Library of Congress. ACTIVITY 2: TEXT ANALYSIS Directions: Analyze the text below and complete the questions that follow. CATHARINE BEECHER: A PROMINENT ABOLITIONIST Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) was an American writer and teacher known for her opinions on women’s education and her strong support of incorporating kindergarten into the American school system. She was heavily involved in politics and organized and led a women’s movement to protest the Indian Removal Act in 1830. It was the first national campaign on the part of women in the United States. She was also a prominent abolitionist. An ABOLITIONIST was someone prior to the Civil War who was in favor of abolishing, or getting rid of the institution of slavery. Beecher wrote: “…is there nothing to be done to bring this national sin of slavery to an end? Must the internal slave trade, a trade now ranked as piracy among all civilized nations, still prosper in our bounds? Must not females open their lips and bring such shame and sin to an end? To this it maybe replied, women can do and say much to bring these evils to an end...but in an appropriate manner. By assuming the advocate and mediator of peace...by employing her influence, not for the purpose of exciting the public and inspiring agitation, but by promoting a spirit of morality and charity.” SOURCE: Catharine Beecher on the “Duty of American Females” (1837). — IMAGE: Catharine Beecher. 1. What is an abolitionist? 2. Based on your analysis of the quote by Catharine Beecher, describe Beecher’s point of view regarding the slave trade. 3. How does Beecher describe the role of women in the abolitionist movement? ACTIVITY 3: VIDEO ANALYSIS Directions: Analyze the video and complete the questions that follow. WOMEN TAKE ON ABOLITIONIST POLITTICS 1. Why did women want to bring awareness to the problems of slavery to people in New England/The North? 2. Why did Northern women plan to host a ‘Christmas-Holiday’ fair? How did the fairs help the abolitionist movement? 3. How did women use sewing circles to promote abolitionism? 4. How did abolitionism give rise to women’s involvement in politics? LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJpr5e9zE0 SOURCE: Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885). ACTIVITY 4: DOCUMENT ANALYSIS Directions: Analyze the document below and complete the questions that follow. The abolitionist movement enabled women to 1. According to this document, how did women carve out a place in the carve out a place in the public sphere. Women public sphere? attended anti-slavery meetings and circulated petitions to Congress. Most prominent during the 1830’s were Angelina and Sarah Grimke, 2. Who were the Grimke sisters? How did they influence people to rally the daughters of a South Carolina slave owner. against slavery? Why was their perspective so convincing? The women had been converted to Quakerism and abolitionism while visiting Philadelphia. They began to deliver popular lectures that offered a scathing condemnation of slavery from the perspective of those who had witnessed it. The 3. How did people react to women having an opinion on a political issue? sight of women lecturing in public to mixed Predict how this will lay foundations for the women’s suffrage (right female and male audiences and taking part in to vote) movement in the future. public debate on political questions aroused considerable criticism. SOURCE: Eric Foner, Voices of Freedom (Volume one, Third Edition - 2011). ACTIVITY 5: ASSESSMENT Directions: Choose an option below and complete on looseleaf for an assessment grade. OPTION A OPTION B Create four multiple choice questions about today’s topic. In a paragraph of 6-8 sentences, answer the AIM: “How Include four options for each question and be sure to did the abolitionist movement lead to the early women's choose the correct answer. rights movement?” Provide at least two pieces of evidence from today’s activities. ACTIVITY 6 — ADDITIONAL RESOURCE: GUIDED NOTES Directions: Copy the notes as directed. What was THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT? ACTIVITY 7 — ADDITIONAL RESOURCE: PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS Directions: Analyze the documents and answer the questions that follow. ANGELINA GRIMKE: THOUGHTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS “...we are led to examine why human beings have any rights. It is because they are moral beings; they are creatures who have morals, understand morals, know right from wrong actions and behaviors. The rights of all men, from king to the slave, are built upon their moral nature: and as all men have this moral nature, so all men essentially have the same rights… Now it naturally occured [sic] to me that if rights were founded in moral being, then the assigning of gender could not give to man higher rights and responsibilities, than to woman...When I look at human beings as moral beings, all distinction in gender sinks to insignificance and nothingness; for I believe it regulates rights and responsibilities no more than the color of the skin or the eyes. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. Our duties are governed, not by difference of gender, but by our wealth, knowledge, the variety of natural gifts and talents we each have, and the different eras in which we live. This regulation of duty by gender, rather than by fundamental principle of moral being, has led evils flowing from masculine and feminine roles in society. By this doctrine, man has been converted to the warrior, clothed in sternness… while women have been relegated to a pet, a mere thing of luxury to be humored and spoiled like a child, or converted to a mere slave to please her lord and master….this principle has spread throughout the world and given men the character to exercise tyranny, selfishness, pride, arrogance, lust, and brutal violence. It has robbed women of essential rights, the right to think and speak and act on all great moral questions, the right to share responsibilities, dangers and toils...Women instead of being regarded as equal to the man, has uniformly been looked down upon as his inferior, a mere gift to fill up his happiness… I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights… I believe the discussion of human rights in the North has been of an immense advantage to this country… the discussion of slavery has opened the way for the discussion of other rights, and the ultimate result will be most certainly the breaking of every restriction, letting the oppressed go free, an emancipation far more glorious than any world yet ever seen...for women of all kinds and humans of all races.” SOURCE: Angelina Grimke “Human rights not founded on sex (gender)” (August 2nd 1837). — IMAGE: Angelina Grimke. 1. Why does Grimke believe that all human beings should have the same rights? 2. Does Grimke believe that women and men are equal? Justify your response with a quote that supports your answer. 3. Why does Grimke support abolition? Justify your response with a quote that supports your answer. 4. Why does Grimke think that women getting involved with abolitionism, slavery, and human rights has opened the door for other types of rights? Explain.