1. Women’s Rights movement
“Well—Behaved Women rarely Make history”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

2. “We women have good cause to be grateful to the slave
“We women have good cause to be grateful to the slave. In striving to strike his irons off, we found…that we were manacled ourselves.”

3. Feminist:
A Person (male or female) who advocates equal rights for women
Suffrage:
The Right to Vote
_____________________________
In response to attacks on their right to speak in public, many women became feminist leaders, advocating the rights of women as well as those of blacks

4. Sojourner Truth
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She was born a slave named Isabella Baumfree, but was freed at age 28 due to a New York law. She joined the Anti-Slavery Society and became an abolitionist lecturer and a speaker for women's rights both black and white. She changed her name to reflect her new mission—“traveling” to “tell the truth” about slavery and women. After the Civil War, she spoke for equal rights.

5. Susan B. Anthony
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A Quaker teacher raised in New York, she teamed with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to mastermind the feminist crusade. Her organizational skills and selfless dedication built the women’s rights movement. She believed that women’s right to vote was their most important platform. She was arrested many times for illegally trying to vote.

6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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She grew up observing her lawyer father advise women of their inferior legal status. She later organized the women’s movement in 1848, and with Anthony, led it for more than 50 years. Intelligent, educated, witty, and articulate, she was the movement’s philosopher and speechwriter. She first conceived the idea of a women’s rights organization in 1840 while attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London with her husband. On the trip, she and Lucretia Mott became fast friends and after their unequal treatment at the convention, they resolved to hold a women’s rights convention when they returned home. After an 8-year delay, they did so.

7. Lucy Stone
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She became one of the most eloquent speakers for the causes of abolition and women’s rights. She was among the first women in America to go to college. She attended Oberlin College, where she became the first Massachusetts women to earn a college degree. In 1855, she married abolitionist Henry Blackwell. Desiring equality, they omitted the word ________from their vows and she kept her maiden name—very unusual for the time.
“Obey”

8. was the 1st woman to receive a medical degree in the US
Elizabeth Blackwell
was the 1st woman to receive a medical degree in the US

9. Women’s Rights Convention
On _________________________Stanton and Mott launched the women’s rights movement with the Women’s Rights Convention. More than 300 people, men and women, attended the meeting held in Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton wrote and read a radical document, the Declaration of Sentiments while at the convention.
July 19th and 20th, 1848,

10. Declaration of Sentiments
It was the radical document that paraphrased the Declaration of Independence, and argued that women and men should be treated equally. It listed_____ grievances and ____ resolutions for action. The 9th resolution was considered very radical and almost didn’t get enough votes at the convention to be supported. It was the right _________________________. Thanks to delegate Frederick Douglass, the 9th resolution passed, and they decided to make that one of the issues they would fight for. 18 12
for women to vote

11. Suffragettes picketing in front of the White House, 1917

12. The Women’s Rights Movement ended in_________ with the passage of the ______ Amendment that granted female suffrage.
1920
19th

13. President Wilson signing the 19th Amendment while suffragettes look on.