EQ: HOW DOES CITIZEN ACTION INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT POLICY?

1 /4 /2012

Famous Faces of Citizen Action

Review: Abolition Movement

Have out Cornell Notes from yesterday.

Consider this Famous Quote:

“ One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.”

What does this mean?What is the difference between standing up

for your beliefs and being a rebel or a traitor?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1. 1852; AbolitionistCause: End slavery2. Wrote “Uncle Tom’s

Cabin” --Fiction book about the horrors of slavery

Sold over 2 million copies in 10 years

Made more in the North support abolition (getting rid of slavery)

Made people in the South angry (believed it to be unfair and untrue—they looked bad!)

John Brown

1. 1850s An abolitionist

Cause—End slavery2. Killed pro-slavery

citizens in Kansas

Led Raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, VA in October 1859

Plan: Take the weapons and give them to slaves, then kill slaveholders

Not successful; was executed for treason

Further Research: Compare these abolitionists to other famous activists in history.

In your folders, you have brief bios of several activists.

Read about them with your group members and complete the graphic organizer.

You will have more activists than spaces so choose who you want to read about.

Back to this Quote:

“ One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.”

After reading about several famous activists who were very different in their goals and methods…

What does this mean?What is the difference between standing up

for your beliefs and being a rebel or a traitor?