1. A CALL FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS
WHEN WOMEN BECAME INVOLVED IN REFORM MOVEMENTS, LIMITS ON THEIR PARTICIPATION LED SOME WOMEN TO FEEL THAT THEY NEEDED TO WORK FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR THEMSELVES INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

2. The Rights of American Women were limited
1820—
The Rights of American Women
were limited

3. WOMEN COULD NOT VOTE
WOMEN COULDN’T SERVE ON JURIES
WOMEN COULDN’T ATTEND COLLEGE

4. WOMEN COULDN’T ENTER PROFESSIONS IN MEDICINE OR LAW
MARRIED WOMEN COULDN’T OWN PROPERTY AND GAVE THEIR WAGES TO THEIR HUSBANDS

5. 1800s American Belief:
“A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE HOME”

6. NOTABLE NAMES: LUCRETIA MOTT SOJOURNER TRUTH SUSAN B . ANTHONY
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

7. Lucretia Mott Quaker Outspoken leader of the anti-slavery
and women’s movements
She organized the first women’s rights convention: The Senaca Falls Convention
After slavery was abolished, Mott supported the rights of American blacks to vote

8. SOJOURNER TRUTH
BORN INTO SLAVERY
SHE WAS ILLITERATE,
BUT HER WORDS INSPIRED CROWDS OF PEOPLE
SHE BECAME A POWERFUL VOICE ON BEHALF OF ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICANS AND WOMEN
In 1854, at the Ohio Woman's Rights Convention, she gave her most famous speech -- with the legendary phrase, “AINT I A WOMAN?”

9. “AIN’T I A WOMAN?” (speech by Sojourner Truth)
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and ain't I a woman? ... I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me -- and ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear the lash as well -- and ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me -- and ain't I woman?"

10. SUSAN B. ANTHONY Abolitionist and Suffragist
Gave speeches a year
for 45 years
Led the only non-violent revolution in our country's history -- the 72-year struggle to win women the right to vote.
Her last public words, "Failure is impossible," became the suffrage rallying cry.

11. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
One of the leaders of the
Women’s Rights Movement
Put together the first Woman’s Rights Convention with Mott
The Seneca Falls Convention
Wrote the “Declaration of Sentiments”-which demanded full equality for women in every area of life.

12. Declaration of Sentiments
Exerpt:
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied…..We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness….”

13. WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
MEANING:
THE RIGHT TO VOTE

14. SENECA FALLS CONVENTION
A CONVENTION TO ADVANCE WOMEN’S RIGHTS
THE CONVENTION MET IN SENECA FALLS, NY IN THE SUMMER OF 1848
OBJECT—”TO DISCUSS THE SOCIAL, CIVIL AND RELGIOUS RIGHTS OF WOMEN”
IT ATTRACTED OVER 300 MEN AND WOMEN

15. RESULTS OF THE CONVENTION:

16. LAUNCHED THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE U.S.
NATIONAL WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION FOUNDED IN 1869 (BY STANTON AND ANTHONY)

17. 1860—NEW YORK PASSED A LAW PROPTECTING WOMEN’S PROPERTY RIGHTS
SOME STATES ALLOWED MARRIED WOMEN TO KEEP THEIR WAGES
SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS WERE STARTED (MOUNT HOLYOKE WAS THE FIRST COLLEGE FOR WOMEN IN THE U.S.)

18. “The love of democracy is that of equality.”

19. GREAT WOMEN THROUGHOUT THE AGES