A CALL FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS WHEN WOMEN BECAME INVOLVED IN REFORM MOVEMENTS, LIMITS ON THEIR PARTICIPATION LED SOME WOMEN TO FEEL THAT THEY NEEDED TO WORK FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR THEMSELVES INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

The Rights of American Women were limited 1820— The Rights of American Women were limited

WOMEN COULD NOT VOTE WOMEN COULDN’T SERVE ON JURIES WOMEN COULDN’T ATTEND COLLEGE

WOMEN COULDN’T ENTER PROFESSIONS IN MEDICINE OR LAW MARRIED WOMEN COULDN’T OWN PROPERTY AND GAVE THEIR WAGES TO THEIR HUSBANDS

1800s American Belief: “A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE HOME”

NOTABLE NAMES: LUCRETIA MOTT SOJOURNER TRUTH SUSAN B . ANTHONY ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Lucretia Mott Quaker Outspoken leader of the anti-slavery and women’s movements She organized the first women’s rights convention: The Senaca Falls Convention After slavery was abolished, Mott supported the rights of American blacks to vote

SOJOURNER TRUTH BORN INTO SLAVERY SHE WAS ILLITERATE, BUT HER WORDS INSPIRED CROWDS OF PEOPLE SHE BECAME A POWERFUL VOICE ON BEHALF OF ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICANS AND WOMEN In 1854, at the Ohio Woman's Rights Convention, she gave her most famous speech -- with the legendary phrase, “AINT I A WOMAN?”

“AIN’T I A WOMAN?” (speech by Sojourner Truth) "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and ain't I a woman? ... I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me -- and ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear the lash as well -- and ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me -- and ain't I woman?"

SUSAN B. ANTHONY Abolitionist and Suffragist Gave 75-100 speeches a year for 45 years Led the only non-violent revolution in our country's history -- the 72-year struggle to win women the right to vote. Her last public words, "Failure is impossible," became the suffrage rallying cry.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON One of the leaders of the Women’s Rights Movement Put together the first Woman’s Rights Convention with Mott The Seneca Falls Convention Wrote the “Declaration of Sentiments”-which demanded full equality for women in every area of life.

Declaration of Sentiments Exerpt: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied…..We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness….”

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MEANING: THE RIGHT TO VOTE

SENECA FALLS CONVENTION A CONVENTION TO ADVANCE WOMEN’S RIGHTS THE CONVENTION MET IN SENECA FALLS, NY IN THE SUMMER OF 1848 OBJECT—”TO DISCUSS THE SOCIAL, CIVIL AND RELGIOUS RIGHTS OF WOMEN” IT ATTRACTED OVER 300 MEN AND WOMEN

RESULTS OF THE CONVENTION:

LAUNCHED THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE U.S. NATIONAL WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION FOUNDED IN 1869 (BY STANTON AND ANTHONY)

1860—NEW YORK PASSED A LAW PROPTECTING WOMEN’S PROPERTY RIGHTS SOME STATES ALLOWED MARRIED WOMEN TO KEEP THEIR WAGES SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS WERE STARTED (MOUNT HOLYOKE WAS THE FIRST COLLEGE FOR WOMEN IN THE U.S.)

“The love of democracy is that of equality.”

GREAT WOMEN THROUGHOUT THE AGES