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1 Chapter 8, Section 3 A Call for Women’s Rights p. 301-304
Some reformers seek to win political and economic equality for women.

2 8.3 section focus question:
How did the women’s rights movement begin?

3 The Struggle Begins Women not allowed to:
Main Idea: Women who were involved in abolition and other reform movements begin to speak out about the status of women. Women not allowed to: Vote Serve on juries Attend college Become doctors or lawyers Married women can’t own property or keep their own wages Sound familiar? Many women’s rights advocates start out as abolitionists* Quaker women, like Lucretia Mott allowed to do many things banned by other religions Mott: great organizer & public speaker Life for American Women in 1820: Lucretia Mott ( )

4 Sojourner Truth Born a slave in New York
Given name: Isabella Baumfree Religious calling to the abolitionist AND women’s rights movements God tells her to change her name Although illiterate, her powerful voice speaks truth for women & the enslaved Women’s rights, religious tolerance, and pacifism Sojourner Truth ( )

5 Seneca Falls Convention
Main Idea: The Seneca Falls Convention (1848) marks the start of an organized effort to win more rights for American women. 1840: Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton are excluded from abolitionist meeting in London = NEED for women’s movement 1848: Seneca Falls, NY – meeting to discuss women’s rights Declaration of Sentiments: List of rights all women should have Stanton borrows heavily from the Declaration of Independence: “….all men and women are created equal.…” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1848 Calls for women’s suffrage - the right of women to vote Mott fears this is too radical Elizabeth Cady Stanton

6 New Opportunities for Women
Main Idea: In the mid-1800s, women gain new opportunities for education and careers. Seneca Falls Convention launches the women’s rights movement. organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in America Elizabeth Cady Stanton teams with Susan B. Anthony - never married; free to devote life to reform - Together, they start National Women’s Suffrage Association 1860: convince NY to pass law to protect women’s property rights States change laws allowing married women to keep their wages Susan B. Anthony

7 Education for Women Emma Willard starts the Troy Female Seminary
Becomes the model for other educational academies Enrollment in 1821: 90 students By 1831: over 300 students Mary Lyon opens Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837 1st U.S. college for women Shows women can learn higher level subjects: Latin, geometry, chemistry, ….. Emma Willard Mary Lyon

8 Women with New Careers Women expand in education as both students & teachers: Margaret Fuller makes a career in journalism & as a literary critic. Elizabeth Blackwell: 1st American woman to graduate medical school - Geneva Medical College, in NY: 1849 Maria Mitchell first female professor at Vassar College Teaches Astronomy Margaret Fuller Elizabeth Blackwell Maria Mitchell

9 8.3 section focus question:
How did the women’s rights movement begin? When women became involved in reform movements, like the abolition movement, limits on their participation led some women to feel that they needed to work for equal rights for themselves, including the right to vote.

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