--- title: Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Ethan's friend says slavery ended in 1865, done. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Rights won step by step: freedom, vote… # Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights Lesson 69 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 25 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/0/) — Ethan's friend says slavery ended in 1865, done. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/1/) — Jaden thinks Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and changed everything alone. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/2/) — Ella asks: once rights are won, they stay, right? - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/3/) — All three stories are too neat. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/4/) — What really happened: Britain banned slavery in most of its empire in 1834, the US in 1865, Brazil in 1888 and Mauritania only in 1981, and forced labour still happens illegally today. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/5/) — Rosa Parks was part of a planned movement with many people. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/6/) — And rights can be lost: Germany's democracy was ended in 1933 when Hitler's party took power. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/7/) — Think of a staircase: each step was won by people who pushed for it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/8/) — Serfs, farmers tied to a landlord's land, were freed in the Russian Empire, including much of Ukraine, only in 1861. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/10/) — Children's rights are a new step. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/11/) — In the 1800s children worked in mines and mills; in 1989 the UN agreed the Convention on the Rights of the Child. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/12/) — Disabled people campaigned for ramps and access, and rulers like the Mughal emperor Akbar showed long ago that respecting other faiths helps peace. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/13/) — Some steps took decades. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/14/) — Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison under apartheid, South Africa's laws separating people by race, then became president in 1994. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/15/) — Rights are like a garden: they need looking after, or they grow over. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/16/) — Serfs were farmers tied to a landlord's land who could not leave freely; serfdom ended in the Austrian Empire in 1848 and in the Russian Empire, including much of Ukraine, in 1861. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/17/) — Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1834; the US ended slavery in 1865, Brazil in 1888, and Mauritania made it illegal in 1981; forced labour still happens illegally today. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/19/) — In 1989 the UN agreed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, promising school, safety, health and a voice; almost every country in the world has joined it. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/20/) — In the 1800s many children worked in factories and mines; Britain's Factory Act of 1833 banned children under 9 from textile mills, and well over 100 million children still work today, mostly on farms. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/21/) — Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the group that wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, with people from many countries such as René Cassin of France and Peng Chun Chang of China. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/22/) — In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Alabama; the bus boycott that followed, led by Martin Luther King and others, helped end segregation laws, which kept Black and white people apart on buses, in schools and in shops. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/23/) — Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in prison and elected president in 1994 in South Africa's first election open to all races. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/24/) — Disabled people campaigned for access; the US passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, and the UN agreed a convention on disabled people's rights in 2006. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/25/) — Akbar, who ruled the Mughal Empire in India in the late 1500s, held debates with Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jains and others, and ended a special tax on non-Muslims. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/26/) — Rights can be lost: Germany was a democracy after 1919, but Hitler's party took power in 1933 and ended it. - ← previous: [Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time/) - next →: [Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)