Mr. Peltier Social Studies

1. Mr. Peltier Social Studies Key Terms and People Sojourner Truth -She was born into slavery in New York. She gained her freedom when New York abolished slavery in 1827. Even though she was illiterate she gave powerful speeches about abolition and the status of women. Her best-known speech, which became known as “Ain’t I a Woman?” was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.

2. AIN'T I A WOMAN?by Sojourner Truth Delivered 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about? That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full? Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

3. Sojourner Truth

4. Lucretia Mott • Dates: (January 3, 1793 - November 11, 1880) • Occupation: reformer: antislavery and women's rights activist; Quaker minister • Lucretia Mott considered slavery an evil to be opposed. Lucretia Mott helped organize women's abolitionist societies, since the anti-slavery organizations would not admit women as members. • Known for: initiating Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

5. Lucretia Mott

6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Born: November 12, 1815, Johnstown, New YorkDied: October 26, 1902, New York, New York • Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the first leaders of the American woman's rights movement. An excellent writer and speaker, she, and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 and worked together to secure women's right to vote. Throughout her life, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a spokesperson for the rights of women. • She was a leader of the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in 1848. She along with other leaders met to discuss the “social, civil, and religious rights of women.”

7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot; 1856

8. Susan B. Anthony • Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to secure women's suffrage in the United States. • Susan B. Anthony was a leader along side Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the fight for women’s rights and for the abolition of slavery. She helped found the National Women’s Suffrage Association, an organization dedicated to gaining women's suffrage. • She traveled the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches per year on women's rights for some 45 years!!!

9. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

10. Key Terms • Women’sSuffrage- Women’s right to vote. • Women’s rights movement– organized campaign to win property, education, and other rights for women.

11. SENECA FALLS, NY 18481st women’s rights convention in U.S. history In July of 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights convention in American history. Although the Convention was hastily organized and hardly publicized, over 300 men and women came to Seneca Falls, New York to protest the mistreatment of women in social, economic, political, and religious life. The Declaration of Sentimentsand Resolutions issued by the Convention, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence, detailed the "injuries and usurpations" that men had inflicted upon women and demanded that women be granted all of the rights and privileges that men possessed, including theright to vote.

12. Seneca Falls, NY 1848 • 1st ever Women’s Rights Convention in United States

13. SENECA FALLS CONVENTIONSENECA FALLS, NEW YORK • Purpose: organize a women’s rights movement • Significance: first public meeting for women’s rights in the U.S. -JULY 1848 SUFFRAGE!!!

14. WHO ARE WE?WOMEN!!!WHAT DO WE WANT?SUFFRAGE!!!WHAT THE HECK IS SUFFRAGE?VOTING RIGHTS, DUH!!!