1. Women Rejecting the Cult of Domesticity

2. Cult of Domesticity Traditional Role=“Cult of Domesticity”
Women’s place is in the home-keepers of national “conscience” & raise good citizens
By 1840s, calls for expanded roles & Rights for women increased
Mostly by middle class reform-minded women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
Expanded rights for women-suffrage
Seneca Falls Convention (New York, 1848)
“Declaration of Rights & Sentiments”
Launched modern women’s rights movement

3. Main Points
For the first 150 years of this nation’s history, women were denied a fundamental right of American citizenship, the right to vote.
Women involved in the early 19th century social movements spoke out against and actively resisted many forms of political, social, economic and racial oppression.
Even though women knew it to be dangerous to oppose the male-dominated status quo, many bravely persevered.
Men, as well as women, supported the early women’s movement.

4. Assignment
In your groups, you will ready 4 documents from women who lived during the early Women’s Movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell
Susan B. Anthony
1. Assign each person one document. 1 min.
2. Read and annotate your document-5 mins.
3. Answer the corresponding questions-5 mins.
5. Each person shares 10 mins.
6. Together, answer the culminating questions. 10 mins.

5. Religious Revival and Women
Women's movements were rooted in the Second Great Awakening
Women were able to participate in religious affairs
Formed women's groups (Bible reading) which became reform societies.
s reform societies grew rapidly
Politically women were not to be seen or heard

7. Questioning Inequality in Religion
Sarah Grimke
“men and women are CREATED EQUAL….Whatever is right for a man to do, is right for a woman.”
(in a letter written to her minister 1838)

8. Abolitionism and Women
Religious revival lead to anti-slavery = women’s groups  to anti-slavery groups 1830s-1860s
African American women became major leaders of anti-slavery movement
Harriet Tubman: helps free 200 slaves through Underground RR; only 5 ft tall; $ bounty
Sojourner Truth: former slave, escapes – leader in anti-abolitionist movement; writes memoir; 6 ft tall

9. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth

10. Women’s Suffrage Women demand rights of representation and vote
Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
First women's rights convention held in US
Organizers: Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Stanton
Seneca Falls Declaration (Stanton)
“all men and women are created equal”
Emphasis on women’s rights as oppose to another group (slavery, religion)