1. Lesson 3: The Women’s Movement
Chapter 15
Lesson 3: The Women’s Movement
Sorry Mr. Betts….this one is just better than yours

2. Reform for Women
Many believed that abolition and women’s rights were linked
Lucretia Mott
Quaker – Quaker women enjoyed more equality
Believed in abolition and women’s rights
Helped runaway slaves
Organized Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society

3. Seneca Falls Convention
July 1848 first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY
Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
300 people attended (about 40 men)
Big moment: debate over a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

4. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Modeled after the Declaration of Independence
They change it to include women:
Called for an end to laws that discriminated against women
Demanded that women be allowed to enter the all-male world of trades, professions, and businesses
Called for woman suffrage (the right to vote in elections)

5. DO NOT WRITE THIS SLIDE DOWN
1.Men have not permitted women to vote.
2. Women are subject to laws they have no voice in making.
3. Women are denied rights given to "the most ignorant and degraded men."
4. Beyond denying women a voice in legislation, men have oppressed women further.
5. A woman, when married, has no legal existence, "in the eye of the law, civilly dead."
6. A man may take from a woman any property or wages.
7. A woman can be compelled by a husband to obey, and thus made to commit crimes.
8. Marriage laws deprive women of guardianship of children upon divorce.
9. A single woman is taxed if she owns property.
10. Women are not able to enter most of the more "profitable employments" and also "avenues to wealth and distinction" such as in theology, medicine, and law.
11. She cannot obtain a "thorough education" because no colleges admit women.
DO NOT WRITE THIS SLIDE DOWN

6. Women’s Movement Grows
Susan B. Anthony
Quaker
Abolitionist
Called for equal pay and college training for women
Believed in coeducation (the teaching of males and females together)
Organized the Daughters of Temperance, the first women’s temperance association
Met Stanton in 1851 and became very close friends

7. Opportunities for women
Wyoming in 1890: first state to grant women suffrage
Several states followed
Not until 1920 did all women gain the right to vote when the 19th Amendment passed

8. Women Make Gains (do not write down slide)
Catherine Beecher- Milwaukee College for Women followed her idea, the goal to train women to be healthful, intelligent, and successful wives, mothers, and housekeepers
Emma Willard- educated herself in science and math, 1821 she set up the Troy Female Seminary in NY, TFS taught math, history, geography, and physics as well as homemaking subjects
Mary Lyon- teacher for 20 years, established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts in modelled after Amherst College

9. Marriage and the Family
Before mid 1800s, women had few rights
Anything a woman owned became her husbands if she married
Mid 1800s-late 1800s: marriage and property laws started to change
Married women could own their own property in several states
Some states allowed divorced women to share custody of their children
Some states allowed women to seek divorce if their husbands were alcoholics

10. Breaking Barriers
In the 1800s, women had few career opportunities (teacher, and paid less than men)
Women struggled to become doctors or work in the ministry
Elizabeth Blackwell: graduated first in her class and became a famous doctor
Maria Mitchell: educated by her father, became the first female to discover a comet with a telescope, first female elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences