1. The Women's Suffrage Movement
Pageant in front of the U.S. Treasury Building, Washington D.C.
Part of the March 3, 1913, suffrage parade.

2. How did Women Address Gender Inequality & Other Reforms?

3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Sarah & Angela Gremke
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony &
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

4. Seneca Falls Convention 1848
Women’s Rights convention organized by Stanton & Mott
Prepare a statement of grievances
Present the “Declaration of Sentiments”
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal
Convention calls for Women’s suffrage (right to vote)

5. Women’s Rights
Women’s rights advocates seek to break the Cult of Domesticity
The belief that women should only work in the home to perform domestic duties (children, house, family)
Women call for property rights, custody rights for their children
The right to vote, and sit on juries
Campaign for equal political rights

6. Education & Health Reforms
Sarah & Angelina Gremke
Opened schools for girls
Attempted to have girls move beyond elementary school
Were also involved in the abolitionist movement

7. Abolition of Slavery Women speak out for abolition of slavery
Speak out against inhumane treatment of slaves, family rights for slaves
Women writers and speakers call for an end to slavery and help to fuel the movement in the north

8. Temperance Movement Public Drunkenness remained a serious problem
Women viewed alcoholism as a family matter
Believed that alcohol use by men was hurting families and society
Women became the leaders of the temperance movement.
Temperance leasers convinced Congress to pass the Eighteenth Amendment in 1917 which established Prohibition. This made the sale, production and distribution of alcohol illegal in the U.S

9. How did Women Address Gender Inequality & Other Reforms?
Women called rights equal to that of men (voting rights)
Created schools for equal education
called for the complete abolition of slavery, and helped the movement gain momentum in the North
Viewed the temperance movement as a family values issue.
Worked for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920