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Beginnings of Women's Rights Movement: Voices of Equality

Discover how the women's rights movement started with women's involvement in abolition and reform, advocating for political and economic equality. Learn about key figures such as Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, who spearheaded the fight for women's suffrage and equality, leading to new opportunities and careers for women in the mid-1800s. Explore educational advancements and the significant Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, where the Declaration of Sentiments outlined fundamental rights for women. Uncover the historic journey towards women's rights and empowerment in America.

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Beginnings of Women's Rights Movement: Voices of Equality

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  1. Chapter 8, Section 3A Call for Women’s Rightsp. 301-304 Some reformers seek to win political and economic equality for women.

  2. How did the women’s rights movement begin? 8.3 section focus question:

  3. The Struggle Begins Main Idea: Women who were involved in abolition and other reform movements begin to speak out about the status of women. Life for American Women in 1820: • Women not allowed to: • Vote • Serve on juries • Attend college • Become doctors or lawyers • Married women can’t own property or keep their own wages Sound familiar? • Many women’s rights advocates start out as abolitionists* • Quaker women, like Lucretia Mott allowed to do many things banned by other religions • Mott: great organizer & public speaker Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)

  4. Sojourner Truth • Born a slave in New York • Given name: Isabella Baumfree • Religious calling to the abolitionist AND women’s rights movements • God tells her to change her name • Although illiterate, her powerful voice speaks truth for women & the enslaved • Women’s rights, religious tolerance, and pacifism Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)

  5. Seneca Falls Convention Main Idea: The Seneca Falls Convention (1848) marks the start of an organized effort to win more rights for American women. • 1840: Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton areexcluded from abolitionist meeting in London =NEEDfor women’s movement • 1848: Seneca Falls, NY – meeting to discuss women’s rights • Declaration of Sentiments: List of rights all women should have • Stanton borrows heavily from the Declaration of Independence: “….all men and women are created equal.…” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1848 • Calls for women’s suffrage - the right of women to vote • Mott fears this is too radical Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902

  6. New Opportunities for Women Main Idea: In the mid-1800s, women gain new opportunities for education and careers. • Seneca Falls Convention launches the women’s rights movement. • organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in America • Elizabeth Cady Stanton teams with Susan B. Anthony - never married; free to devote life to reform - Together, they start National Women’s Suffrage Association • 1860: convince NY to pass law to protect women’s property rights • States change laws allowing married women to keep their wages Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906

  7. Education for Women Emma Willard starts the Troy Female Seminary Becomes the model for other educational academies Enrollment in 1821: 90 students By 1831: over 300 students Mary Lyon opens Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837 1st U.S. college for women Shows women can learn higher level subjects: Latin, geometry, chemistry, ….. Emma Willard Mary Lyon

  8. Women with New Careers • Women expand in education as both students & teachers: • Margaret Fuller makes a career in journalism & as a literary critic. • Elizabeth Blackwell: 1st American woman to graduate medical school - Geneva Medical College, in NY: 1849 • Maria Mitchell first female professor at Vassar College • Teaches Astronomy Margaret Fuller Elizabeth Blackwell Maria Mitchell

  9. How did the women’s rights movement begin? When women became involved in reform movements, like the abolition movement, limits on their participation led some women to feel that they needed to work for equal rights for themselves, including the right to vote. 8.3 section focus question:

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