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2. The Age of Reform: The Women’s Rights Movement (1820-1860)

3. Essential Question
What were the effects of the women’s rights movement of the middle to late 1800s?

4. Women and Reform Many women reformers were Quakers
Lucretia Mott and other Quakers had some equality in their communities
Mott helped fugitive slaves and formed an antislavery society
Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the world antislavery convention in London
They joined forces to work for women’s rights

5. The Seneca Falls Convention
July 1848
First women’s rights convention was in Seneca Falls, New York
200 women and 30 men attended
The convention issued a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence
Called for an end to laws that discriminated against women

6. The Seneca Falls Convention Continued
The Declaration also demanded that women be allowed to have jobs that men had
The most controversial issue at the convention was about suffrage (right to vote)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted the Declaration to demand women suffrage
The delegates thought the idea of women voting was too radical
Stanton and Frederick Douglass argued powerfully for women’s right to vote
After a heated vote, the convention voted to include the demand for woman suffrage

7. A B C D What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
Section 3
What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
A. Delegates called for an end to child labor.
B. Delegates passed a resolution in favor of voting rights for all African Americans.
C. Delegates demanded that women be given the right to vote.
D. Delegates petitioned the United States to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. A B C D

8. Growth of the Women’s Movement
Seneca Falls paved the way for growth of the women’s rights movement
Susan B. Anthony worked for women’s rights and temperance
Anthony called for equal pay for women, college training for girls, and coeducation

9. Growth of the Women’s Movement Continued
Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at a temperance meeting in 1851
They became partners in the struggle for women’s rights and suffrage
They were the leaders and worked for the right to vote for women
1890- Wyoming gave women the right to vote, others soon followed
Not until 1920 would women officially be given the right to vote

10. Education
They broke the barriers to female education and helped other women do the same
Emma Willard educated herself in subjects thought only suitable for men (math and science)
Mary Lyon established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837

11. Marriage and Family Laws
Women made some gains in marriage and property laws in the mid to late 1800s
NY, Penn., Indiana, Wisc., Mississippi, and California recognized the right of women to own property after their marriage
Some states passed laws for divorced women
Divorced women could share the guardianship of their children with their husband
Indiana was the first to allow women to seek divorce if their husband were chronic abusers of alcohol

12. Section 3
Under the new marriage laws passed in Indiana, when could a woman seek divorce from her husband?
A. If he could not provide adequately for the family
B. If he abused their children
C. If they disagreed on how to raise their children
D. If he was a chronic abuser of alcohol A B C D

13. Breaking Barriers In the 1800s, women had few career choices
They could be elementary teachers (Paid less than men)
Men dominated professions like medicine and ministry
Some strong minded women like Elizabeth Blackwell broke this barrier
Blackwell became a doctor
Despite the accomplishments, women remained limited by social customs and expectations
Women had just begun the long struggle to achieve their goal of equality

14. -Women gained the right to vote in several states
Essential Question
What were the effects of the women’s rights movement of the middle to late 1800s?
-Women gained the right to vote in several states
greater access to education
Expanded rights within marriage in some states
Greater public awareness of issues affecting women

15. Chapter 14 Section 3 Quiz

16. Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts admitted only African Americans.
True
False

17. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the women's rights movement after forming a friendship in 1851.
True
False

18. Women fighting to end slavery recognized their own oppression and formed the
temperance movement.
education movement.
suffrage movement.
women's rights movement.

19. The first women's rights convention was held in
Georgia.
New York.
Virginia.
Ohio.

20. Which was the first state to grant women the right to vote?
New York
Wyoming
Indiana
Ohio

21. The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls convention concerned
education.
suffrage.
jobs.
slavery.

22. The Quaker woman who gave lectures calling for temperance, peace, workers' rights, and abolition was
Lucretia Mott.
Elizabeth Stanton.
Lucy Stone.
Susan B. Anthony.

23. Elizabeth Blackwell made contributions in the field of
astronomy.
medicine.
literature.
elementary education.

24. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was founded by
Susan B. Anthony.
Elizabeth Stanton.
Amelia Jenks Bloomer.
Mary Lyon.

25. The first state to allow women to divorce their husbands if they had an alcohol problem was
New York.
Indiana.
California.
Mississippi.

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