1. Women and Reform Movements
Do Now Question:
What reform movements were taking place in the 1820's 's?

2. Women and Abolitionism
Many women were abolitionists...
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Many of these women later went on to be part of the women's rights movement

3. Women and Temperance
The Temperance Movement is a movement to “end drunkenness”
Aim to lower or outlaw the consumption of alcohol
Ex. Mary C. Vaughan

4. Women and Prison Reform
Reformers focused on rehabilitation
Move mental patients to separate hospitals
Improve conditions in prisons to help the convicted person change
Ex. Dorothea Dix

5. Women's Rights
Want more rights – to own property, to be educated, to work, etc...
Seneca Falls Convention
Gathering of women's rights activists
They declared a set of goals, including the right to vote
Ex. - Susan B. Anthony