The Struggle for Equality

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The Struggle for Equality
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Path to Abolishing Slavery

• The Constitutional Convention would have failed
  without a compromise on slavery.
• Counted slaves as 3/5ths of person
• Returned runaway slaves to their owners

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In the Constitution

• What terms are used to describe African Americans?

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• The Framers Use terms like,
• All other persons and such people

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What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Divided new lands into slave territories and
free territories.
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Who was Dred Scott?
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Dred Scott Case 1857

• A Slave from South
• Traveled and lived in North
• Slavery was illegal in this territory
• After coming back to Missouri, Scott argued he
  should be free
• Court ruled that according to the Constitution
  Slaves were property

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14th Amendment - 1868

• Ensured Citizenship for CitizensTakes power away
  from states to grant citizenship
• Sometimes called the 2nd Bill of Rights

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• Did the 14th Amendment ensure equal treatment of
  African Americans?

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• NO!
• Many states created new ways to segregate.

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• What is suffrage?

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The Right to VOTE
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15th Amendment 1870

• States may not deny the vote to any person on the
  basis of race, color, or previous condition of
  servitude
• What did they forget????????

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WOMEN!!!
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24th Amendment 1964

• Southern states were using a poll tax to prevent
  African Americans from voting.
• This amendment made poll taxes illegal

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The Path to Suffrage

• For African Americans
• For Women
• For Young Adults

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African Americans

• Even though the Constitution banned slavery, the
  struggle for citizenship and right to vote had
  only just begun.

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Womens Suffrage Movement
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When the Constitution was written, only white men
had the right to vote. Women also did not have
many other rights such as the right to own
property or to be educated for certain jobs.
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As time passed, many people came to feel that
this was unfair and that women should have the
same rights as men in our country.
Womens suffrage (right to vote) became an
organized movement in 1848 at a convention in New
York.
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Womens Suffrage Parade in New York City
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was born
February 15, 1820 in Adams,
Massachusetts. 1871 Arrested for voting in a
presidential election Her speech, We, the
people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet
we, the male citizens..
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In 1851 Stanton met Susan B.
Anthony and for the next fifty
years they worked together. Stanton
wrote and gave speeches that called for the
improvement of the legal and traditional rights
of women, and Anthony organized and campaigned to
achieve these goals.
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Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott helped to organize and call
together the first women's rights convention in
Seneca Falls, New York in July of 1848.
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Seneca Falls Convention

• We hold these truths to be self evident.
• 1848

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Sojourner Truth
Truth became a speaker on women's rights issues
after attending a Women's Rights Convention in
1850.
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One thing that had to be done, was to let the
people of each state vote on the idea.
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Finally after years of hard work, the 19th
Amendment was added to the Constitution of the
United States in August of 1920.
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Amendment XIX The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by any state on account of
sex.
The End (but really just the beginning)