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Unit 6, Lecture 3 The Women’s Suffrage Movement

Unit 6, Lecture 3 The Women’s Suffrage Movement. Mr. Smith 8 th grade U.S. History November 19 th & 20 th , 2012. Barriers to Women Reformers. Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton Attended World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 They were denied the opportunity to speak

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Unit 6, Lecture 3 The Women’s Suffrage Movement

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  1. Unit 6, Lecture 3The Women’s Suffrage Movement Mr. Smith 8th grade U.S. History November 19th & 20th, 2012

  2. Barriers to Women Reformers • Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Attended World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 • They were denied the opportunity to speak • Keynote speaker, David Lloyd Garrison, refused to speak at the convention to show support that women should be allowed the same opportunity. • Most people, including many women, felt the woman’s place was out of sight in public life

  3. Barriers to Women Reformers (CONT) • Few legal rights existed to women in the 1800s. They could not… • Vote • Sit on juries • Hold public offices • Manage property previously owned when they remarried • Dictate where money they earned would be spent • Stanton & Mott made up their mind that upon returning to America, they would hold a convention for women’s rights

  4. The Seneca Falls Convention • July 19th & 20th, 1848 • Seneca Falls Convention • Between 100-300 women and men were in attendance (including Frederick Douglass) • “All men are created equal”  “All men and women are created equal” • A huge list of complaints demanding resolutions were read • Every resolution won unanimous approval except suffrage • Suffrage – the right to vote

  5. The Seneca Falls Convention (CONT) • Stanton and Douglass continued to fight for the resolution • The resolution over suffrage would win by a slim margin • The women’s rights movement would be highly ridiculed throughout America. • Many married female participants would suffer physical violence at the hands of their spouse because of ‘shame’ and ridicule brought in their direction

  6. Continuing Mott & Stanton’s Work • Sojourner Truth spoke at a convention for women’s right in Ohio • Maria Mitchell founded the Association for the Advancement of Women • First woman elected to the American Academy of Arts & Scientists • Susan B. Anthony took the women’s movement and built it into an organization

  7. Continuing Mott & Stanton’s Work (CONT) • Believed a women was entitled to the funds she brought into a marriage and earned on her own. • She also fought for women’s suffrage, going to jail several times for attempting to vote.

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