1. A Call for Women’s Rights Pg.301
Ch.8 Sec.3
A Call for Women’s Rights
Pg.301

2. The struggle begins In 1820, the American women’s rights were limited.
They could not vote, serve on juries, attend college or enter any professions. Married women couldn’t own property or keep their own wages.
Women began to demand rights as equal citizens.
Sojourner Truth held a strong voice for women rights and for also enslaved African Americans.
Lucretia Mott, a Quaker, spent years working in the antislavery movement. Quakers allowed them to take public roles that other religions prohibited. She had organizing and public speaking experience that most women didn’t.

3. Seneca Falls Convention
In 1840,Mott traveled to attend an international antislavery convention. There, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. When they attend the convention women weren’t allowed to take an active roll.
So them two together started a convention for women rights.

4. The Declaration of Sentiments
-Stanton wrote a speech to declare, she wanted equal rights as men. “…to declare our right to be free as man is free”
Call for Suffrage
-Stanton’s argument was a battle for women’s suffrage. Women’s suffrage: or the right of women to vote. Not all agreed, but Frederick Douglass strongly supported it. Others, like Mott feared that the call for suffrage would be so controversial and it would harm other causes.

5. New Opportunities for women.
Seneca Falls Convention launched the women’s rights movement in the USA.
Political Victories
-Susan B. Anthony became a close ally of Stanton, both made a dynamic team. Together, they founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association In Made little progress at first but won some victories. Stanton and Anthony got N.Y. to pass a law protecting womens property rights( other states followed)

6. Education For Women
Girls seldom studied advanced subjects like math and science, boys learned how to become voters, citizens and professionals.
Before the Seneca Falls Convention, Reformers worked to give girls a chance for a better education. In 1821 Emma Willard started an academy in Troy, New York for girls that soon became the model for girl schools everywhere.
-The first year, it had 90 students enrolled
And by 1831 it had more than 300 students.
- Mary Lyon, opened Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, Massachusetts. Was the first college for women in the United States.

7. New Career’s
Gradually, American society came to accept that girls could be educated an that women could be teachers.
More schools began hiring women as teachers, women tried to enter other professions.
Margaret Fuller, was a journalist published an influential book, “woman in the nineteenth century.”
Other women excelled in science, Elizabeth Blackwell< was the first women to graduate from an American medical school.