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Women’s Rights and Abolition

In the early 1800’s, many women and blacks in America started to want a change in American society. They wondered why whites males were given freedoms and social rights that women and blacks were not. Many woman and African Americans joined two groups in the mid 1800’s, the Women’s Rights Movement and the Abolitionist Movement, to try and fights for equal rights for all Americans. After reading this essay, you will see that although the Women’s Rights Movement was about helping women and the Abolition Movement was about helping blacks, both of these movements were extremely similar.

During the mid 1800s women and blacks did not have the rights that the white males had. There were two groups of people that stand by for equal treatment. They were the Women’s Rights Movement and the Reform Movement. There were many famous leaders like Frederick Douglas, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Willion Lloud. Many people did not want females and blacks to have equal rights. Many of the members were threatened and some of them were killed.

Many of the same positive effects happened because of the two Reform Movements. By the early 1900s, both women and blacks had gained the right to vote. And by the end of the civil war, most states allowed women and blacks to own properties. Even though it took about 100 years, by the 1960s blacks and women were given the same legal rights white men in America have.

As you can see from reading this essay, there are many similarities between the Women’s Rights Movement and the Abolition Movements. If these reform movements had not have happened there would had never been equal rights between women and blacks. Women and blacks where both not given the freedom and liberty that every American is entitled to.

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