People+who+made+change


 * Directions:** Use the videos and readings on this page to complete the graphic organizer

=**Person# 1: SUSAN B. ANTHONY**=
 * Introduction:** Before 1920, women did not have the right to vote. The suffrage movement was created to help women gain the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was an influential suffragist leader who fought for women’s right. In the 1872, Susan B. Anthony broke the law and attempted to vote. She was arrested and put on trial.

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 * Video Clip 1:** In the following clip you will see an actress reenactingthe trial of Susan B. Anthony


 * Video Clip 2** :[|The Legacy of Susan B. Anthony]

=**Person #2 Fredrick Douglass**=
 * Introduction:** Frederick Douglass was born a slave. He Escaped from slavery at the age of 21. He became a great speaker and abolitionist. In his speeches, he described the horrors of slavery. He founded his own newspaper, “The North Star”. During the Civil War, Douglass recruited blacks for the union army, and from 1889 to 1891 he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti.

**Fredrick Douglass Video Link:** [|Fredrick Douglass]
= = =**Person #3: Franklin Roosevelt**=
 * Introduction:** When Franklin Roosevelt was elected the United States was in the middle of the worst economic crisis it had ever faced, the great depressions. Banks closed, people lost their homes and unemployment was at record high. President Roosevelt began a series of reforms called the new deal. These reforms were created in order to prevent the great depression from ever happening again.

Reading on the New Deal