The Women's Rights Movement in the 1800s

Chapter 15 The Age of Reform (1820-1860) Section 3 The Women’s Movement

Section 3-Polling Question Rate your agreement with the following statement: Women have equal rights with men in the United States today. A.Strongly agree B.Somewhat agree C.Somewhat disagree D.Strongly disagree • A • B • C • D

Essential Question What were the effects of the women’s rights movement of the middle to late 1800s?

Women and Reform • Many women reformers were Quakers • Lucretia Mott and other Quakers had some equality in their communities • Mott helped fugitive slaves and formed an antislavery society • Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the world antislavery convention in London • They joined forces to work for women’s rights

The Seneca Falls Convention • July 1848 • First women’s rights convention was in Seneca Falls, New York • 200 women and 30 men attended • The convention issued a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions • Called for an end to laws that discriminated against women

The Seneca Falls Convention Continued • The Declaration also demanded that women be allowed to have jobs that men had • The most controversial issue at the convention was about suffrage (right to vote) • Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted the Declaration to demand women suffrage • The delegates thought the idea of women voting was too radical • Stanton and Frederick Douglass argued powerfully for women’s right to vote • After a heated vote, the convention voted to include the demand for woman suffrage

Section 3 What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848? A.Delegates called for an end to child labor. B.Delegates passed a resolution in favor of voting rights for all African Americans. C.Delegates demanded that women be given the right to vote. D.Delegates petitioned the United States to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

Growth of the Women’s Movement • Seneca Falls paved the way for growth of the women’s rights movement • In the 1800s- Women held several national conventions • Susan B. Anthony worked for women’s rights and temperance • Anthony called for equal pay for women, college training for girls, and coeducation • Anthony organized the country’s first women’s temperance association, the Daughters of Temperance

Growth of the Women’s Movement Continued • Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at a temperance meeting in 1851 • They became partners in the struggle for women’s rights and suffrage • They were the leaders and worked for the right to vote for women • 1890- Wyoming gave women the right to vote, others soon followed • Not until 1920 would women officially be given the right to vote

Education • Some women began to make their own opportunities • They broke the barriers to female education and helped other women do the same • Emma Willard educated herself in subjects thought only suitable for men (math and science) • Willard set up the Troy Female Seminary in 1821 • Mary Lyon established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837

Marriage and Family Laws • Women made some gains in marriage and property laws in the mid to late 1800s • NY, Penn., Indiana, Wisc., Mississippi, and California recognized the right of women to own property after their marriage • Some states passed laws for divorced women • Divorced women could share the guardianship of their children with their husband • Indiana was the first to allow women to seek divorce if their husband were chronic abusers of alcohol

Section 3 Under the new marriage laws passed in Indiana, when could a woman seek divorce from her husband? A.If he could not provide adequately for the family B.If he abused their children C.If they disagreed on how to raise their children D.If he was a chronic abuser of alcohol • A • B • C • D

Breaking Barriers • In the 1800s, women had few career choices • They could be elementary teachers (Paid less than men) • Men dominated professions like medicine and ministry • Some strong minded women like Elizabeth Blackwell broke this barrier • Blackwell became a doctor • Despite the accomplishments, women remained limited by social customs and expectations • Women had just begun the long struggle to achieve their goal of equality

What were the effects of the women’s rights movement of the middle to late 1800s? -Women gained the right to vote in several states • greater access to education • Expanded rights within marriage in some states • Greater public awareness of issues affecting women Essential Question

Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts admitted only African Americans. • True • False

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the women's rights movement after forming a friendship in 1851. • True • False

Women fighting to end slavery recognized their own oppression and formed the • temperance movement. • education movement. • suffrage movement. • women's rights movement.

The first women's rights convention was held in • Georgia. • New York. • Virginia. • Ohio.

Which was the first state to grant women the right to vote? • New York • Wyoming • Indiana • Ohio

The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls convention concerned • education. • suffrage. • jobs. • slavery.

The Quaker woman who gave lectures calling for temperance, peace, workers' rights, and abolition was • Lucretia Mott. • Elizabeth Stanton. • Lucy Stone. • Susan B. Anthony.

Elizabeth Blackwell made contributions in the field of • astronomy. • medicine. • literature. • elementary education.

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was founded by • Susan B. Anthony. • Elizabeth Stanton. • Amelia Jenks Bloomer. • Mary Lyon.

The first state to allow women to divorce their husbands if they had an alcohol problem was • New York. • Indiana. • California. • Mississippi.

The Women's Rights Movement in the 1800s