1. Don’t forget the women Restricted to home and family after marriage
One in ten single white women worked outside the home by 1850
Could not vote or sit on juries
After marriage her property and any money she earned became her husbands.
Many married women had no guardianship over their children
He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise

2. Declaration of Sentiments
Convention at Seneca Falls, New York
Used the model of the US Declaration of Independence
Demanding that the rights of women as right-bearing individuals be acknowledged and respected by society.
Signed by 68 women and 32 men

3. Opening document
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and WOMEN are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

4. TREATMENT BY MEN
He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise
He has compelled her to submit to laws in the formation of which she had not voice (public office
He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.
Wages earned by employed wives were turned over to husband

5. More restrictions of women
In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposed, her master-the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty and to administer chastisement
He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to shall be the proper causes, and in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women

6. More restrictions of women
He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education, all colleges being closed to her
Concludes Declaration by demanding these restrictions to end immediately

7. REFORMERS Lucretia Mott Mott attended the World Anti-Slavery
Convention in England
Organized the first
Women’s rights
Convention at Seneca
Falls.

8. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Harriet Tubman Abolitionist, humanitarian
And union spy during
Civil War
Responsible for the
Underground Railroad
Rescued 70 slaves during 13
Expeditions to Maryland

9. More Reformers Grimke Sisters Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Quakers-strong
Advocates of abolition and
Women’s rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Formed the National Women Loyal League
“Self Sovereignty” for women
Worked closely with Susan B. Anthony

10. Other Great Women Amelia Bloomer Famous women’s writer
Local newspaper in Seneca
Falls.
Abolitionist, fought for
Women’s suffrage working
Closely with Elizabeth Stanton
Designed the “bloomers”
For a more comfortable attire
For women

11. More and More Elizabeth Blackwell First woman physician
Opened the New York
Infirmary with her sister
For women
Abolitionist, strong support
For women’s movement
Trained many nurses for the
Civil War

12. Education Horace Mann Education Reformer The first Board of Education
Created the Massachusetts
School System
Worked to reform the
School Systems to provide
Trained teachers