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12.3 A Call for Women’s Rights. Women who were involved in abolition and other reform movements began to speak out about the status of women. The Struggle Begins (pg. 301). In 1820, what could women not do? Who was Sojourner Truth and what did she do?
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12.3 A Call for Women’s Rights Women who were involved in abolition and other reform movements began to speak out about the status of women.
The Struggle Begins (pg. 301) • In 1820, what could women not do? • Who was Sojourner Truthand what did she do? • Who was Lucretia Mott and what did she do?
Seneca FallsConvention (pg. 302) • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were excluded from an anti-slavery convention. They had their own convention to discuss what?
Declaration of Sentiments (pg. 302) • The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after what famous American document? • What did the Declaration of Sentiments say and did it demand?
Call for Suffrage (p. 302) • What is women’s suffrage? • What was the women’s rights movement?
Political Victories (pg. 303) • What was the name of the organization that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony started in 1869? • What were some of their victories?
Education for Women (pg. 303) • In 1821, Emma Willard found which school which served as a model for girl schools everywhere? • Mary Lyon opened which school in 1837, basically a college and what subjects did they teach there?
New Careers (pg. 304) • Margaret Fuller was a journalist, scholar, and literary critic. - Wrote Women in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Blackwell was the first women to graduate from an American medical school, January 1849. • Maria Mitchell an astronomer, was the first professor hired at Vassar College.
Quick Write (5 min) • A man in the mid-1800’s said about women’s place in society, “Hers is the domestic altar; there she ministers and commands…; let her not seek madly to descend from this eminence to mix with the strife and ambition of cares of government; the field of politics is not her appropriate arena.” • What is this person saying about a women’s place in society? About her say in government? Do you agree or disagree if you lived back then? • You have five minutes to write as much as you can, but you must write more than ten sentences.
American Literature and Arts • Turn to the Study Guide, page 137. Using textbook pages 305-309, fill out the study guide. • Write out the whole study guide.
Essential Questions • What were the goals of the women’s rights movement? • How are transcendentalism and individualism related? • How did the new literature celebrate American culture and society?
