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Reforms in the Mid-1800s

Reforms in the Mid-1800s. Women’s Reforms. To gain a political voice, women advocated: Abolition Women’s Rights (voting, property, etc.) Temperance Education Reform Health Reform. Seneca Falls Convention. Women’s rights convention in 1848, located in Seneca Falls, NY.

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Reforms in the Mid-1800s

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  1. Reforms in the Mid-1800s

  2. Women’s Reforms • To gain a political voice, women advocated: • Abolition • Women’s Rights (voting, property, etc.) • Temperance • Education Reform • Health Reform

  3. Seneca Falls Convention • Women’s rights convention in 1848, located in Seneca Falls, NY. • 300 women and men attended • Created Declaration of Sentiments • Statement of grievances • Modeled after the Declaration

  4. Declaration of Sentiments • What was the purpose of this Document? • List what you think are the 5 biggest Issues Women are declaring against Man • How is this document similar to the Declaration of Independence?

  5. The Changing Workplace • Early manufacturing: produced materials, put together in homes, then given back to manufactures to sell • Changing Manufacturing: workers moved from out of their rural homes and into factory towns • Ie. Lowell

  6. Lowell Mill • Women hired b/c paid lower • Bad working conditions • 14 hour work days • Bad light, ventilation, horrible heat • Overworked • Wage cuts • Girls finally went on strike in 1834 • Strikes failed, but beginning of fight for labor rights

  7. Push for Labor Rights • Skilled and unskilled workers pushed for better conditions in 1830s • Usually strikes were broken by employers replacing strikers with immigrants, coming from MUCH worse conditions in Europe • 1854 – National Trades’ Union formed to protect workers rights. • Not overly successful, but shows change in society.

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