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Women and Reform

Women and Reform. Chapter 8 Section 3 . Women’s Roles in the Mid-1800s. Cult of Domesticity: Women faced limited opportunities Housework and child care were only proper activities for married women

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Women and Reform

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  1. Women and Reform Chapter 8 Section 3

  2. Women’s Roles in the Mid-1800s • Cult of Domesticity: • Women faced limited opportunities • Housework and child care were only proper activities for married women • 1850 1/10 of women worked outside the home and made less than half that a man would for the same work • No Voting • Women get married all land and money becomes husband property

  3. Women Mobilize for Reform • Women Abolitionists: • Sarah & Angelina Grimke • Daughters of South Carolina slave owner • Urged women to overthrow “system of oppression and cruelty” • Some men supported female abolitionist • Others dammed them • “taking the place and tone of a man reformer” • Male opposition made female reformers even more determined

  4. Working for Temperance • Temperance Movement: • Prohibit the consumption of alcohol • Off shoot of the church and women’s movement • Alcohol used by surgeons before anesthetics were invented • Many Americans viewed drunkenness as a serious problem • 1826 the American Temperance Society was founded • 1833 nearly 6,000 temperance societies dotted the country.

  5. Education for Women • Limited education for women after elementary school • “women who knew chemistry enough to keep the pot boiling, and geography enough to know the location of the different rooms in the house were learned enough” – Angelina Grimke • 1837 Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (Mount Holyoke College) • Education for black women even worse; would not change until after the Civil War.

  6. Women’s Rights Movement Emerges • Seneca Falls: • 1848 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott held women’s rights convention • Named after the town it was held in, Seneca New York • Convention created a list of grievances modeled after the Declaration of Independence • “Declaration of Sentiments” • “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal” • 300 women and men showed up for the convention

  7. Sojourner Truth • Women reformers made great strides in changing social conditions • Slave life continued to turn for the worst • Isabella Baumfreea slave for first 30 years of her life changed her name to Sojourner Truth (traveling truth) • Traveled the country preaching for abolition.

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