1. Chapter 14
Section 3

2. 1. What was life like for women in the 1800’s before reform?
They were, sadly enough, viewed as property. When a woman married a man in the 1800's, everything she owned became his property... including herself.
Women did not have the right to speak in public.
Women had no voting rights and could not testify in a court of law
It was rare for a woman to enter the all-male world of trades, professions, and businesses

3. Where was the 1st women’s rights convention held?
Seneca Falls, New York
3. What was their plan called and what resolutions were passed?
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Called for an end to laws that discriminated against women & demanded that women be allowed to enter the all man world of trades, professions, and businesses.
The most controversial issue was about suffrage, or the right to vote.

4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
Lucretia Coffin Mott:
Helped fugitive enslaved workers and organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. At the Seneca Falls Convention she argued that the idea of women voting was too radical.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
Worked with Lucretia Coffin Mott at the Antislavery convention in London. She and Mott disagreed about women suffrage. Stanton insisted that the declaration include a demand for woman suffrage.

5. Susan B. Anthony: Worked for women’s rights and temperance.
Called for equal pay for women
Believed in college training for women and coeducation.
Worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to win the right to vote for women.
Wyoming in 1890 then several other states granted women suffrage.
It wouldn’t be until 1920 that women would get the right to vote throughout the United States.

6. Maria Mitchell: Elizabeth Blackwell:
Educated by her father and became fascinated with astronomy
Discovered the orbit a a new comet in 1847
Accepted at Vassar College when it opened in 1865
Elizabeth Blackwell:
Attempted to enter medical school and her application was turned down repeatedly
Accepted by Geneva College in New York
Graduated first in her class
Achieved fame as a doctor

7. 4. What was the first state to allow women to divorce their husbands if they were alcoholics?
Indiana
5. Many believed that the study of mathematics would cause a woman to have a nervous breakdown.
6. What gains in their rights did women make in the mid 1800’s?
Education, Laws, Employment Opportunities.