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**Theme:** Women **Topic:** Early American Republic **Free Response Question**: In what ways did the early nineteenth-century reform movements for abolition and women's rights illustrate both the strength and weaknesses of democracy in the early American republic? Introductory Paragraph **Setting:** In America in the 1800's women and black were being discriminated against and wanted equal rights. **Basis for Analysis**: An effective democratic government should be able to mold to what the people want through peaceful means such as elections, protect the rights of its people, and maintain order in society. **Partitions**: The early American republic had strengths and weaknesses that were brought out by the abolitionist and women's rights movements. **Thesis:** The American democracy in the 19th century, was designed to be fair to all "men" and to change with the times. The women's rights and abolitionist movements showed that the American government at the time could be changed but it was a slow and difficult process. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Outside Knowledge (OK) for each partition - delete these instructions after you have read them. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">3-4 pieces of evidence
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<span style="background-color: #e1ff00; color: #ff4700; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">**Partition 1:** American Republic ability to change, good All "men" are created equal, not true for blacks and women, bad An amendment takes 2/3 of congress and 3/4 of states to ratify it, good and bad Government was ineffective, delayed decision on slavery until the civil war broke out, bad women suffrage took a long time to be ratified, bad

<span style="background-color: #808000; color: #e1ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">**Partition 2:** Abolition Slavery should not be allowed in the first place, bad The government wasn't able to agree on slavery, bad civil war was needed to keep the democracy together, bad had to break the laws to free slaves, fugitive slave act, bad the democracy did survive, good slavery was abolished, good

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">** Partition 3: ** Women's rights Couldn't own property, vote, bad less pay for equal work, bad less rights then the man in divorce, bad Government not responsive to change, bad eventually get rights and suffrage, good civil disobedience with many women going to jail for their protests, bad 1848( seneca falls) to 1920( suffrage amendment passed) very long time bad

<span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">General Information: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">North(union) is antislavery, south( confederacy) is dependent on slavery <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Civil war 1861 to 1865 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">13th amendment in 1865 abolishes slavery <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">15th amendment in 1870 gave blacks the right to vote <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">19th amendment 1920 gave women the right to vote <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">