3.06 Taking Action
Abolitionist Movement
Women's Sufferage
Laborers Demand Change
Improving City Life
Antislavery Movements in the US
Gaining the Vote
Improving City Life
NYC Grows Up
Rebuilding Paris
Laborers Demand Change
Growth of Organized Labor
Women Seek the Vote
Abolitionism in Britain
Heavily involved in slave trade in 1700s
1800s taken lead in attempting to end slavery
Quakers most committed
1786 Thomas Clarkson (clergyman) join forced w/ Quakers
print/distribute pamphlets about horrors suffered by slaves #
Formed abolitionist committees in many English towns #
William Wilberforce
most powerful voice in Britain's antislavery movement #
campaigned in towns and cities of England
won supporters
middle-class educated women took up the cause and boycotted slave-grown sugar
1807 British Parliament abolished slave trade
1813 Outlawed slavery in all of its colonies
Slavery not pop. in north but v. pop. in south
Abolitionists
organized and distributed pamphlets
made speeches
William Lloyd Garrison
A founder of American Anti-Slavery Society
The Liberator
middle-class women supported abolition
Angelina and Sarah Grimke spoke publicly and drew large crowds
Former slaves
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
Criticism, anger, violence from south
South Depended on 4 mil slaves for economy
1848 Seneca Falls (New York) first women's rights convention
late 1800 women were working for sufferage
criticism
women were too stupid to vote
Women voting would destroy families
Britain
Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst
she and her husband won the right of married women's suffrage in local elections
1903 founded the WSPU
Interrupted meetings of Parlaiment
pelted politicians w/ eggs
arrested and sent to jail
hunger strikes in jail (similar to America)
1893 - New Zealand First Nation to give women full voting rights
1902 Australia
1906 Finland
1920 America
1928 Britain
1845 France
Mid 1900's gov. limited women and children's working hours but that was all
Unions b/c strength in numbers
bargained w/ employers
higher wages
better hours
improved work conditions
Collective Bargaining (bargaining as a group)
Employers had the gov and money on their side but the workers worked
workers could strike
cost owners millions
workers suffered b/c no pay but threat of strike could push bosses
At first gov. sided w/ business owners b/c they feared the end of capitalism and banned unions
people said no and continued to unionize
gov. lifted ban
owners fought against the laborers
fired workers in unions
blacklists
lockouts
hiring private armies to squash unions
workers still fought
union number went form 1.5 mil to 4.1 mil in Britain and grew in other countries as well
Sir Robert Peel urged Parliament to establish London's first police force
1850 London built a new sewer system
tore down buildings in the slums but poor people lost their homes
Napoleon III wanted to be the best
Tree- line raods
new aqueducts brought clean water
new sewers removed waste
poor still lived horribly
Could not grow outwards so it became a taller city