Women's Rights Activists and Abolition Movement

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  1. Hello, Good evening everyone today.
  2. I'm going to be doing my project on women's rights
  3. activists and abolition movement.
  4. A summary Here is the summary of the women's rights
  5. and abolition movement.
  6. Women's rights movement, also called Women's Liberation Movement was a
  7. die very social movement largely based in the United States.
  8. That in the 1960s and 70s fought for equal rights
  9. and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women.
  10. It coincided with and is recognized as part of the
  11. second wave of feminism.
  12. When did women sweater activists and abolition movement happened In
  13. the service of anti slavery.
  14. Women found their voices between 1850 and 1860, women's rights
  15. advocates held state and national conventions and campaign for legal
  16. changes. By 1848, the Liberty Party, which had earlier split
  17. from the American Anti Slavery Society, joined a coalition to
  18. create the Free Soil Party.
  19. And I have a few interesting facts here as well.
  20. The first interesting fact was it was first explicitly named
  21. women's rights coverage.
  22. Or it was named women's suffrage as a human right
  23. in 1979.
  24. In 1893, New Zealand became the first self governing nation
  25. to give women a lasting right to vote.
  26. Mhm Not all savages were women and not all anti
  27. soldiers were men.
  28. There were numerous men who were committed Selfridges and some
  29. were imprisoned and force fed just like their female comrades.
  30. Mm hmm.
  31. What is the connection between the abolitionist movement and the
  32. women's rights movement.
  33. The american Women's rights movement grew out of abolitionism indirect
  34. ways the movement's early leaders begin their fight for social
  35. justice with the cause of the slaves and learn from
  36. anti slavery societies how to organize, publicized and articulate a
  37. political protest.
  38. They also began to know in depth how women were
  39. being treated and wanted to put a stop to it.
  40. Who helped to shape these two movements?
  41. Garrett smith and Susan B Anthony helped shape both of
  42. these movements.
  43. How did Susan B Anthony help?
  44. You might be asking for Anthony helped fugitive slaves escape
  45. and held an anti slavery rally.
  46. She and Stanton gathered signatures to pass the 13th Amendment
  47. to the us Constitution, formally abolishing slavery.
  48. Her race also helped pave the way for the 19th
  49. Amendment, which was in 1920 to the constitution giving women
  50. the right to vote.
  51. Yeah. How did Gerrit smith help smith brought the freedom
  52. of countless enslaved individuals and provided them with land and
  53. money to start a new life as an advocate for
  54. women's rights.
  55. Smith was highly regarded in the early years of the
  56. movement and he also helped Susan B Anthony to shape
  57. these two movements as well and helped her bring both
  58. of them.
  59. And lastly, my discussion questions What were three specific goals
  60. of the women's rights movement.
  61. And here is a brief overview of my assignment and
  62. I hope you found everything to be very informative and
  63. informational. Have a great day