the same rights as men did. If fact, the majority of women could not keep their own wages that they had earned until 1860, thanks to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women’s rights movement during the Civil War era. Her amazing writing skills and perseverance helped her and women all across America get the rights that they deserved. Stanton was born November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. Her father was an accomplished lawyer, who made no effort to try
reform impulse which later lead to movements such as women’s rights, the reform of asylums and prisons by Dorothea Dix and the crucially important abolitionist movement. Charles Finny also sought to reform social ills such as alcoholism prostitution war and slavery. Some of these “social ills” would later be attempted to be reformed by the temperance movement and
Kevin Conrad Laurie A. Muffley HTY-110HM-DL02 2 October 2015 Indian Boarding School Essay First off in this essay I’d like to discuss how and why the boarding schools came into existence and what the purpose of these institutions was. These schools started being established in the 1870’s, because Americans convinced Congress that education could change the Native American populations. Americans wanted Natives to contribute to society and become Christians. One of the first efforts to accomplish
Underground Railroad: THESIS: The underground railroad was an exchange of peoples, that, throughout its history during slavery, constituted a growing sense of hope for African Americans that slavery was an institution that was fading away in the american culture with the growing sectionalism of America. MAKE IT AN ALTHOUGH THESIS Although the underground railroad can be seen as a mere network of houses that hardly helped runaway slaves, it gave to the slaves who dreamt of being free, created