1. Women’s Rights MEREDITH FAHRINGER

2. Seneca Falls Convention  the first women's rights convention  Held in Seneca Falls, New York  spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848  A resolution demanding women’s right to vote narrowly passed

3. New Opportunities For Women  Reformers opened ne w schools for women  Mary Lyon opened the first women’s college in the US Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts.  Emma Willard opened a highschool for girls in Troy, New York  Some men’s colleges started to accept female students  Women were known ffor holding more jobs

4. Sojourner Truth  An African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist  “If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”

5. Lucretia Mott  an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer.  helped form the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833  Mott’s feminist philosophy was outlined in her Discourse on Women  was among the founders of the American women’s rights movement

6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton  19th century suffragist and civil rights activist  helped organize the world’s first women’s rights convention in 1848  formed the National Women’s Loyal League with Susan B. Anthony in 1863  became an increasingly marginalized voice among women reformers late in life  her efforts helped bring about the eventual passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave all citizens the right to vote.

7. Susan B. Anthony  a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement  partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and led the National American Woman Suffrage Association