Chapter 16 part two

- The feminist movement aimed at ending the idea of women being subordinate to men. It started a century after the French Revolution. Then, in the 20th century, it became even stronger focusing on multiple different aspects (the rights of women to dress, work, vote, ..etc). It started with the Enlightenment of European thinkers. Women participated in the French Revolution that paved the way to a new society. Women later started having some freedom in work and education in industralized societies. The first organized form of the movement happened in mid 1800s in New York, as a women’s right convention (where they edited the Declaration of Independence of the United States to include women). The movement kept getting momentum, until in the 1900s, women got much more rights to education, work, and many more rights.

- The abolition movement (1780-1890) aimed at ending slavery. It was inspired by the ideas of liberty and equality held by Enlightenment thinkers in the 18th century Europe, and the French and American Revolutions. Also, the belief that slavery results in economic growth was debunked by the evidence that at that time, both England and New England were doing pretty well economically-speaking though they had mostly free labor. All of this led to the beginning of spread of the belief that the idea of slavery is outdated, wrong economically and morally. Also, the success of the Haitian Revolution (which ended slavery there) and also the Jamaican one gave a big push to this movement (now, it is not just economically and morally wrong, but also politically unwise). A bigger movement evolved with a lot of support from the working class in England. England later ended slavery in its empire, and then other countries followed. It was not easy but it was a major step.

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