1. Going Back to Cali / The Women’s Movement
Objectives:
**Explain how the government dealt with slavery in the territories acquired after the war with Mexico
**List the major features of the Compromise of 1850
**Analyze the beginning of the women’s movement
SOL = VUS.6
Timeline =
Going Back to Cali / The Women’s Movement
US History

2. San Francisco (SF) (1848-1849) Gold found in SF in late ‘48
Waves of people looking for $$$$ in ‘49

3. The San Francisco 49ers
Rapid growth of Cali
Eligible to be a US State

4. The Wilmot Proviso (August 1846)
Congress bill
Tried to ban slavery in lands gained from Mexico
David Wilmot

5. The Northern Conspiracy????
South claims North is trying to ruin Slave-Free balance in USA
Months of debate

6. The Compromise of 1850
Written by Henry Clay

7. For the North…
California IN as a free State

8. For the South… Fugitive Slave Law
(requires the North to return all runaway slaves)

9. A New Policy – Popular Sovereignty
Allowed NEW, potential States to have citizens vote….
Slave State or Free State??

10. The Women’s Suffrage Movement
Est. 1830s
Suffrage = women to get the right to vote

11. Seneca Falls Convention (July 19-20, 1848)
Birth of the organized women’s movement
Meeting of important US women (and some men)

12. The Declaration of Sentiments
Women’s version of the Dec. of Independence
Sought equality to men

13. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Wrote the Declaration
Fought for women's parental, property, income, and birth control rights

14. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) Voice and face of the women’s movement
100 speeches a year