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Abolition, Women’s Rights and Temperance all connected. The early women's rights movement built upon the principles and experiences of other efforts to promote social justice and to improve the human condition. Abolition Movement 1840 Women's Rights Movement 1840 Temperance Movement1847 (prohibition)

Frederick Douglass- spoke at many women’s rights meetings.

The Temperance movement A social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence, or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation.

Amelia Bloomer the first newspaper for women, The Lily. It was issued from 1849 until 1853. The newspaper began as a temperance journal. The Lily always maintained its focus on temperance. Fillers often told horror stories about the effects of alcohol. For example, the May 1849 issue noted, “A man when drunk fell into a kettle of boiling brine at Liverpool, Onondaga Co. and was scaled to death.”

Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) Born the daughter of a Nantucket sea captain, Mott was reared in a Quaker community that provided strong role models for the young girl. She attended a Quaker boarding academy in the Hudson Valley, New York, where she soon became a teacher. Raised in a Quaker community, she became a member of the society’s ministry and adopted its anti-slavery views. Mott helped form the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 When denied a seat in 1840 at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London on account of her sex, Mott preached her doctrine of female equality outside the conference hall. Wrote Discourse on Women argued for equal economic opportunity and voting rights.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) At nearly six feet tall, Stanton's mother, Margaret Livingston Cady, "an imposing, dominant and vivacious figure who controlled the Cady household with a firm hand," modeled female presence. Married Henry Brewster Stanton against her parents' wishes departing immediately on a honeymoon to the World's Anti-Slavery convention in London. Between 1869 and 1890, Stanton and Anthony's National American Woman Suffrage Association worked at the national level to pursue the right of citizens to be protected by the U.S. constitution.

Susan B. Anthony(1820-1906) Quaker who became active in the antislavery movement. Antislavery met at their farm almost every Sunday, where they were sometimes joined by Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Later two of Anthony's brothers, Daniel and Merritt, were anti-slavery activists in the Kansas territory. teacher in New York and became involved with the teacher’s union when she discovered that male teachers had a monthly salary of $10.00, while the female teachers earned $2.50 a month. an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organizations.

Arrested- but no appeal – which means no higher court for hearing. Anthony and her three sisters voted in the 1872 Presidential election. She was arrested and put on trial in New York. The judge instructed the jury to find her guilty without any deliberations, and imposed a $100 fine. When Anthony refused to pay a $100 fine and court costs, the judge did not sentence her to prison time, which ended her chance of an appeal. An appeal would have allowed the suffrage movement to take the question of women’s voting rights to the Supreme Court, but it was not to be.

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