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Anneke says

May 7, 2015 at 3:10 AM

Thesis inspiration, just in case this could be helpful to anyone:
Analyze the effectiveness of Abolitionism and Women’s Rights Movements achieving their goals in the mid-19th century.

Many activists involved in the abolitionist or women’s rights movements, such as the Grimke sisters and Frederick Douglass, supported both causes. However, most pressed abolition as a more timely issue, which would directly alleviate human suffering. For this reason, abolitionists were more successful in accomplishing their goals in the mid nineteenth century, while women’s rights activists saw more success in the 1920s and 1960s.

Abolitionism
Making the Civil War about slavery
Through many different mediums
William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator, which called for the immediate and uncompensated end to slavery
Other newspapers such as Frederick Douglass’s North Star
and speeches and tours held by abolitionists such as Douglass and Angela Grimke
Made abolishing slavery an unavoidable, if not sympathetic cause
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe especially made an emotional appeal to the masses that drove many to support the abolitionist cause
Therefore, because of the diverse range of appeals
as well as the debates over popular sovereignty, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act abolitionists were successful in eventually tailoring the Civil War to their cause
which eventually resulted in Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
Civil War
Because the Union won the Civil War after various victories such as that at Antietam, abolitionists main goal of the emancipation of slaves was achieved.
This goal was solidified with the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
Not necessarily civil rights
However, because many abolitionists sought not only to end slavery, but also gain civil rights for freed slaves, abolitionist goals that remained after reconstruction were not fulfilled until the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board of Education; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Voting Rights Act of 1965

Women’s Rights
Because the country’s attention was focused on the Civil War and the slavery issue, women’s rights were pushed to the sidelines in later years
The sentiments expressed by Frederick Douglass are representative of what took place in history. He supported women’s suffrage, a major goal of the women’s rights movement. However, he believed that emancipation should be the more immediate goal of the nation and the movement, which makes sense as Douglass was a male and former slave.
1920s
The 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, was not passed until 1920, at the end of the Progressive Era, many years after the Civil War.
1960s
Broader goals of the women’s rights movement, such as
Sexual Freedom
Were not largely achieved until the second wave feminist movement of the 1960s of beyond
Roe v. Wade
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Still work to do
The messages of both movements are still relevant today, and neither has achieved all that they have sought out to
Abolitionists
Police Violence
Classism as a mechanism to enforce unofficial segregation
Subconscious prejudice
Other residues of slavery still remain
Women’s rights
War on Reproductive Freedom
Wage Gap
Discrimination
Although both movements have at long last achieved many of their goals, there is still work to be done by future generations. It is our turn to foster social change and make our own impact on United States History.

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