1. Early 19c Women Single - could own her own property
Married - no control over her property or her children
Couldn’t make , sign a , or in court without her husband’s permission

2. Women Educators 1831 1837 1834 Troy, NY Female Seminary
Curriculum: math, physics, history, geography
Train female teachers
1831
Opened school for girls
1834
Opened school for African-American girls
Emma Willard ( )
1837
Mt. Holyoke (College)
first college for women
Prudence Crandall ( )
Mary Lyons ( )

3. “Separate Spheres” Concept
“ ”
A woman’s “ ” was in the home (it was a refuge from the cruel world outside)
Her role was to “ ” her husband and family
An 1830s MA minister:
The power of woman is her dependence. A woman who gives up that dependence on man to become a reformer yields the power God has given her for her protection, and her character becomes unnatural!

4. Cult of Domesticity =
The 2nd Great Awakening inspired women to improve society
Lucy Stone
Angelina Grimké
Sarah Grimké
American Women’s Suffrage Assoc.
Edited Woman’s Journal
Southern Abolitionists
Ran a school for females

5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women’s Rights
1840 -
London - World Anti-Slavery Convention
female delegates denied right to attend convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
1848 -

6. Seneca Falls Declaration

7. What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own Way!