1. Meeting Women Who Spoke Out

2. Susan B. Anthony
Leading organizer for women’s suffrage (voting rights)
Founded organization to promote women’s suffrage
Dedicated life to inspiring other women to demand equal rights
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3. Susan B. Anthony
Her Quote: “There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers… The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all th more debasing (despicable) because they do not realize it. O to compel them to see and feel and to give them the courage and th conscience to speak and act for their own freedom, though they face the scorn and contempt of all the world for doing it!”
Put her quote into your own words.

4. Read the quote below.
“Women have enough influence as mothers and wives that they don’t need to be involved in politics. Because their influence in the family, they are already very powerful- giving them to right to vote in unnecessary.”

5. Pretend you are Susan B. Anthony and write a response to the quote.
“Women have enough influence as mothers and wives that they don’t need to be involved in politics. Because their influence in the family, they are already very powerful- giving them to right to vote in unnecessary.”

6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Planned first women’s rights convention and authored, “Declaration of Women’s Rights”
Pushed for full political equality for women including the right to vote
wrote Women’s Bible, which criticized organized religion for subordinating women
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7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Her quote “ The Bible and Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation (freedom)… The Bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated (brought about) the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgement seat of Heaven, tried, condemed, and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage (imprisonment), materity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man’s bounty for all her material wants...”
Please put her quote into your own words

8. Read the quote below
“ In his infinite wisdom, God has created two different, but very acceptable, roles for the sexes. Man in his role and woman in her role work together in harmony. When either man or woman steps out of that role, it hurts the family and disrupts the harmony of society.”

9. Pretend you are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and respond to the quote
“ In his infinite wisdom, God has created two different, but very acceptable, roles for the sexes. Man in his role and woman in her role work together in harmony. When either man or woman steps out of that role, it hurts the family and disrupts the harmony of society.”

10. Sojourner Truth Enslaved half her life before earning her freedom
testified in court and before Congress on behalf of African American rights
Well travelled public speaker on such topics as women’s rights and abolition
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11. Sojourner Truth
Her quote, “ Nobody eber help me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best place! Ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could ever hear me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man- when I could get it- and bear de lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and see ‘em most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?”
Please put her quote into your own words

12. Please read the quote below
“Women have delicate bodies and emotions. They should not be placed under unnecessary stress and physical strain. This could overwhelm them and, ultimately, harm their ability to have children.”

13. Pretend you are Sojourner Truth and respond to the quote below
“Women have delicate bodies and emotions. They should not be placed under unnecessary stress and physical strain. This could overwhelm them and, ultimately, harm their ability to have children.”

14. Lucy Stone Established women’s suffrage (voting) organization
Urged states to protect women’s rights
Founded woman’s journal which chronicled women’s progress in politics, employment, and law
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15. Lucy Stone
Her quote, “We want rights. The flour-merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us not less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor (try) to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the difference.”
Please put her quote into your own words.

16. Please read the quote below:
“ The man in the wage-earner and provider for the family. A woman who works is simply bringing in extra money to the family, and thus does not need to paid as much as a man.”

17. Pretend you are Lucy Stone and respond to the quote below.
“ The man in the wage-earner and provider for the family. A woman who works is simply bringing in extra money to the family, and thus does not need to paid as much as a man.”

18. Elizabeth Blackwell First American Woman Physician
Overcame scorn and discrimination throughout medical school and career
Her success as a doctor inspired first women’s medical school
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19. Elizabeth Blackwell
Her quote, “The idea of winning a doctor’s degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.”
Please put her quote into your own words.

20. Read the quote below
“A woman’s most important job is caring for her family and tending to her home. To place anything above her domestic duties- a career, personal ambition, or other interests- is irresponsible.”

21. Pretend you are Elizabeth Blackwell and respond to the quote below.
“A woman’s most important job is caring for her family and tending to her home. To place anything above her domestic duties- a career, personal ambition, or other interests- is irresponsible.”

22. Declaration of Sentiments
Spend 10 minutes practicing your historian research skills. Research to give yourself solid foundational understanding of the Declaration of Sentiments.

23. Declaration of Sentiments
You will look at 6 excerpts from the ”Declaration of Sentiments”
For each excerpt you will draw a symbol for the topic on the spectrum
After placing all 6 symbols please write an explanation of your spectrum to share.
Symbols: Politics, Employment, Wealth, Education, Moral Standards, Treatment by men
Explanation should fully and in detail explain the placement of each symbol.
Not Redressed Fully Redressed

24. Excerpt A:
”He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise (to vote). He has compelled her to submit to (obey) laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.”

25. Excerpt B:
“He has monopolized (dominated) nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives, but scanty remuneration (low wage).”

26. Excerpt C:
“He closes against her all avenues of wealth and distinction which he considers most honorable to himself. As a teacher of theology (religion), medicine, or law, she is not known.”

27. Excerpt D:
“ He has denied her facilities fro obtaining a thorough education, all colleges being closed against her.”

28. Excerpt E:
“He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women…”

29. Excerpt F:
”He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.”