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Women ’ s Rights

Women ’ s Rights. How women were treated. 1. could not vote 2. could not hold office 3. husbands owned all the property 4. women ’ s wages belonged to their husbands 5. husband could beat his wife. Women ’ s Rights Activists.

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Women ’ s Rights

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  1. Women’s Rights

  2. How women were treated • 1. could not vote • 2. could not hold office • 3. husbands owned all the property • 4. women’s wages belonged to their husbands • 5. husband could beat his wife

  3. Women’s Rights Activists • 1. Sojourner Truth – (Isabella Baumfree) she made speeches that ridiculed the idea that women were inferior to men. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3AYiRT4no

  4. Women’s Rights Activists • 2. Lucretia Mott – a Quaker and mother of five children; won the respect of listeners with her persuasive logic; organized petition drives across the North

  5. Women’s Rights Activists • 3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton – leading figure who organized the women’s rights movement at Seneca Falls, NY

  6. Women’s Rights Activists • Susan B. Anthony – leading activist who made 75-100 speeches per year for 45 years and had eggs thrown at her http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/womens-history-month/videos/the-people-speak-3

  7. 1848 Seneca Falls Convention • 1. 200 women and 40 men • 2. Declaration of Sentiments – proclaimed that “all men and women are created equal.” • 3. Resolutions – demanded equality for women at work, at school, and in church • 4. demanded women be allowed to vote

  8. DEBATE POINTS • FOR: • It was not right that half the people should be denied the vote. • It went against the basic democratic principle of “no taxation without representation” if women who paid taxes could not vote. • It is ridiculous that the most idle, uneducated and unprincipled men could vote when the most highly educated and responsible women could not.

  9. DEBATE POINTS • AGAINST: • Women’s “purity, delicacy and refinement” would be at risk from having the vote. • “Because the duties and life of men and women are divinely ordered to be different both in the State and in the home.” • Because political equality will deprive women of special privileges hitherto enjoyed by the sex. • All-male voting was “designed by our forefathers.” • “disaster and ruin would overtake the nation.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w

  10. Fun Quotes • It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.  ~Susan B. Anthony • The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.  ~Lucretia Mott

  11. Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.  ~Faith Whittlesey Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.  ~Lois Wyse I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.  ~Sarah Moore Grimké

  12. Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed.  If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes."  They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."  ~Clare Boothe Luce

  13. THE END School House Rock Malala Interview

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