1. REFORM reform |riˈfôrm| verb [ trans. ] 1 make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it : an opportunity to reform and restructure an antiquated schooling model.

2. MOVEMENT movement |ˈmoōvmənt| noun 2 [often with adj. ] a group of people working together to advance their shared political, social, or artistic ideas : the labor movement. [usu. in sing. ] a campaign undertaken by such a group : a movement to declare war on poverty.

3. TODAY - WEDNESDAY I can describe the contributions of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the women’s rights movement in the United States. I can identify the political, social, and economic contributions of women to reform movements in American society. I can evaluate the impact of educational reform movements, temperance, the women’s rights movement, prison reform, and the care of the disabled on the United States.

4. Women’s Rights A look at the women leaders.

5. Harriet Tubman The leading African- American abolitionist, an escaped slave whose speeches and writings convinced many that slavery was wrong

6. Dorothea Dix Woman who led the reform movement to have hospitals for the mentally ill (and also reform prisons)

7. Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Stanton The leaders of the women’s rights movement, asking for the right to vote, the right to control property, and other rights for women