MGRP - Age of Reform

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  • The Underground Railroad begins

    Slaves begin escaping

  • The temperance movement begins

  • Abolitionists become more heard of

    Riots and conventions take place

  • Anti Slavery Society is founded

  • Great Britian abolishes slavery in colonies

  • Frederick Douglas escapes slavery and goes to New York

  • An institute is created for slaves

    This is a safe place for them to go while they adjust to freedom

  • Senca Falls Convention

    People start to agree including some men resulting in women's rights to be expanded slowly in some states

  • Alliance is formed with abolitionists and feminists

    Slaves publish stories and the congress passed fugitive slave act

  • Harriet Tubman escapes

  • First probation law is passed

  • Second Women Convention

    Soon women are able to publish in the newspaper

  • 13 states enact the probation of alcohol

  • Period: to

    Civil War Begins

    Underground railroad and sufferage act on pause

  • 14th ademendment is ratified

    Citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws

  • Important people start to join the temperance movement

    in 1869 and 1917 which caused other people who looked up to the famous people to join also

  • The Underground Railroad ends

    The 15th amendment is passed, African American men can vote
  • Period: to

    Change is on the rise

    Women's rights begin to expand everywhere and the 19th Amendment is under ratification (women can vote)
    The probation begins

  • Change has arrived!

    Women can vote and the resistance of substance has become important

  • End of Prohibition for Alcohol