Abolitionist Movement 1800s

The United States of America can be considered as one of the nation’s top competitors in terms of strength, power. However, in the second half of the 18th century, America greatly lacked what was needed to grow and prosper into the thriving country it is today. Several historical themes like, for instance, the growth of trading systems, expansion ideas, using America’s geography to an advantage can be used to examine the growth of America. These factors allowed Americans to break out from colonial monotony. Without this vast improvement and maturity of America between the years of 1750 and 1876, America, most likely, would not be strong enough or have the potential as a country to become a threat to other countries around the world. Although
Women, and African Americans were horribly marginalized. demonstrate their anger, they organized reform movements in the hopes of being granted proper education, woman’s rights, and the abolition of slavery. Slavery was a huge social economic and political problem mainly in the southern part of the United States of America. Various individuals, predominantly in the north believed slavery should be abolished, which in return prompted to the abolitionist movement. The idea of abolition began when numerous people started to acknowledge how wrong and remorseless subjection was. The main goals of the movement were to immediately emancipate all slaves, and end racial discrimination and segregation. Individuals like William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, as well as African American men and women and white men and women worked together to rid slavery by using moral persuasion, setting up boycotts, and violent rebellion. Luckily, In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation which ended slavery in the confederate states and also the 13th amendment which abolished slavery all throughout America. In the early 19th century, women’s rights were very limited due to the fact they could not vote, hold property and attain a proper education. Women’s voices and opinions were denied and silenced. Women would have to stay at home and raise their children. However, in the 1840’s women from all over were taking a stand for equal rights. Some important women’s rights reformers were Elizabeth Stanton, Lucretia Mott,Susan B Anthony, the Stowe family, and Margaret Fuller. These women fought long and hard for years and gradually began to gain more freedom in society. Women reformers began to publish their ideas in books, pamphlets and attend conventions to discuss their rights. Therefore, the development of ideas and reform movements