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The Seneca Falls Convention and True Womanhood

The Seneca Falls Convention and True Womanhood. What is True Womanhood?. Questions arise: Where is the rightful place for women-is it in the home or somewhere else? After 2 nd Great Awakening, women were expected to take the moral job of raising families

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The Seneca Falls Convention and True Womanhood

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  1. The Seneca Falls Convention and True Womanhood

  2. What is True Womanhood? • Questions arise: Where is the rightful place for women-is it in the home or somewhere else? • After 2nd Great Awakening, women were expected to take the moral job of raising families • “True Womanhood” was the idea that women should stay at home and value that lifestyle

  3. Women Want Rights • Many women did not want to stay at home • In 1848, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention in NY • Both women were abolitionists • “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”-women’s grievances • Early suffrage movement

  4. Changes • By 1860, at least 15 states permitted widows to keep their property and estates after the deaths of their husband • Women’s suffrage movement starts gaining ground

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