Reshaping America in the Early 1800s Lesson 6 Women Work for Change

Learning Objectives Identify the limits faced by American women in the early 1800s. Trace the development of the women’s movement. Describe the Seneca Falls Convention and its effects.

Reshaping America in the Early 1800s Lesson 6 Women Work for Change Key Terms matrilineal Sojourner Truth women’s movement Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Seneca Falls Convention Amelia Bloomer suffrage Married Women’s Property Act

Women Fight for Reforms A spirit of reform permeated American life in the early and middle 1800s. Women took active roles in the abolition movement and other reform movements. Soon, some of these reformers began to work to gain equality for women as well. Their efforts would lay the groundwork for women’s struggle for equal rights over the next hundred years.

 Matrilineal – cultures where women controlled or influenced work patterns and family structures.  Patrilineal  Women leaders of Temprence movement. Why?  Sojourner Truth – former slave and a spellbound speaker and abolitionist.  Women move off of farms and go to work in factories.  Money most likely went to fathers or husbands  Great social networking  Small degree of economic independence

Women Fight for Reforms Analyze Charts Given the restrictions listed in this chart, how much freedom did women have in the early 1800s?

Women Fight for Reforms Women's clothes of the 1800s, which limited movement, seemed to symbolize the restrictions placed on women's lives.

Women Seek Expanded Rights Although many women became leading reformers, and many others entered the workforce, there had still been virtually no progress in women’s rights. Real progress began only when two historical trends coincided in the 1830s. First, many urban middle-class northern women began to hire servants to do their housework, allowing these middle-class women more time to think about the society in which they wanted to raise their children. Second, some abolitionist women began to notice some similarities between slavery and the restrictions placed on their own lives.

 Women’s movement – movement working for greater rights and opportunities for women that started in the middle 1800’s to the early 1900’s.  Women noticed there was not much difference between slaves and women.  Many women were abolitionists  Two issues intermingled  Lucretia Mott – Quaker, abolitionist, women’s civil rights activist, and social reformer. Helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Writer, abolitionist, women’s civil rights activist, and suffragist. Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.

Women Seek Expanded Rights During the 1800s, middle-class women were seen as domestic caretakers and moral guardians of the home. Analyze Primary Sources What does this illustration suggest about women’s work and status?

Women Seek Expanded Rights Analyze Information Based on this infographic, how did educational opportunities for women change during the 1800s and early 1900s?

The Seneca Falls Convention In 1848, Mott and Stanton helped organize the nation’s first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Often called the Seneca Falls Convention, the meeting attracted hundreds of men and women. One of the most illustrious participants was Frederick Douglass. The delegates to the convention adopted a “Declaration of Sentiments,” modeled after the language of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Sentiments was ridiculed, and the convention resulted in few concrete improvements in women’s rights. It did, however, mark the beginning of the women’s movement in the United States.

 The Seneca Falls Convention  New York  Frederick Douglas  Declaration of Sentiments  Beginning of the women’s rights movement  Amelia Bloomer – women civil rights member that wanted women (among other things) to be able to wear pants.  Susan B. Anthony – suffragist  Suffrage – right to vote  Married Women’s Property Act of 1848 (NY) – guaranteed women property rights (Stanton)

The Seneca Falls Convention This cartoon depicts the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in Interpret Does this cartoon depict the event in a humorous or serious way? Explain the behavior of the spectators in the galleries.

Quiz: Women Fight for Reforms Limitations on women's rights, such as not owning property, holding public office, or the right to vote, were generally a result of A. the shift to matrilineal practices. B. the adherence to religious traditions. C. the following of traditional economic principles. D. the legal traditions that dominated the United States.

Quiz: Women Seek Expanded Rights Which other movement in the early 1800s influenced the women's rights movement? A. the temperance movement B. the prison reform movement C. the abolition movement D. the public school movement

Quiz: The Seneca Falls Convention The two most influential organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention were A. Susan B. Anthony and Margaret Fuller. B. Sarah Grimké and her sister Angelina Grimké Weld. C. Catharine Beecher and Sojourner Truth. D. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.