1. Explain in at least 3 complete sentences.
OBJECTIVE
DO FIRST
You will be able to explain the causes and effects of the first Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S.
Women did not have the right to vote in the U.S. until the year Why do you think women did not have this right? Why were men so afraid to give women that power?
Explain in at least 3 complete sentences.

2. We Want Suffrage! What did it take for women to get the right to vote?

3. Notes Page
Fill in your guided notes as we discuss the causes and effects of the first women’s rights movement!

4. Causes for the Women’s Rights Movement
During the 1800’s, the Industrial Revolution changed America’s society. One major change was the role of women in society.
Before the Industrial Revolution, a woman’s traditional role was to stay at home and take care of the family.
The domestic innovations of the Industrial Revolution made it easier to run a home, and many women started to take on jobs working in factories in the cities.

5. Equal Work = Equal Rights!
Because women were working more, families had fewer children. As women started earning their own income (money) and doing many of the same jobs as men, they started to demand equal rights as men!

6. Women’s Rights!
How the Industrial Revolution changed the lives of women: 4

7. Check your Understanding of the Causes for Women’s Rights!
In the boxes below, draw a visual for causes that led women to demand equal rights.

8. Leaders of the Movement
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two women who helped lead the movement to win equal rights for women.
Lucretia Mott was a Quaker mother of four children. Inspired by her faith, she had spent much of her life fighting to end slavery and speaking out for the rights of African Americans.
Unfortunately, when Mott went to speak at conventions, she was not allowed to give speeches because women were oftentimes not allowed to speak at these meetings.

9. Leaders of the Movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a young woman, newly married. Her father was a judge, and she had oftentimes overheard women begging her father to protect them from husbands who beat them and abused them.
During this time in American history, there were no laws that protected women from this abuse—men could “discipline” their wives however they wanted. When these two women met, they agreed that something had to be done to change the status of women in American society.
Mott and Stanton met other women who had faced similar challenges and brought them together to form a society to advocate for (support) the rights of women.

10. Check your Understanding of the Leaders of the Movement!
What experiences did Mott have that encouraged her to lead this movement?
What experiences did Stanton have that encouraged her to lead this movement?

11. The Seneca Falls Convention
Mott and Stanton decided the first step was to hold a convention (meeting) for supporters of women’s rights. They decided to hold this convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
On July 19th, 1848, almost 300 people (including some men) arrived for the convention. At this convention, the leaders wrote their Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

12. The Declaration of Sentiments
They started their declaration by stating “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal.”
The Declaration of Sentiments listed out the acts of tyranny by men over women—men didn’t give women the right to vote, men didn’t give women the right to own property, men didn’t even give women the right to control their own money!
The people at the convention agreed on resolutions (laws) that should be passed to protect women against these injustices.

13. Compare and Contrast!

14. Effects of the Women’s Rights movement
Susan B. Anthony joined the movement and helped spread the ideas of the Seneca Falls Convention throughout the United States.
Unfortunately, none of the women who started this movement lived to see the day when women won the right to vote (in 1920); but their efforts did lead to the passage of many laws that gave women rights over their property and wages.
Some states even passed laws allowing for divorce and allowed for women to take on professional careers as doctors and lawyers.

15. Check your Understanding on the effects of the women’s rights movement
What were the results of the Seneca Falls Convention? How did it help women achieve equal rights? (give 3 examples)

16. Activity: Primary Source Analysis
Sojourner Truth was an African-American woman who had lived through slavery. During the Women’s Rights movement, she gave this speech: uQeqDA
Work with your teammates to analyze the speech and answer the questions that follow. If you finish before the timer goes off, continue on to the extension activity on the back page.
Tables who complete the entire activity with quality before the timer goes off will earn honor dollars!