1. WARM UP – APRIL 22
EVERYONE GRAB THE GUIDED NOTES AND ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ON THE BACK
REVIEW OF YESTERDAY’S NOTES
1. Who was responsible for an individual’s salvation according to the Second Great Awakening? If each individual improved themselves, what else would improve?
2. What did Transcendentalists believe in?
3. What conditions did Dorothea Dix see when she visited prisons?
4. In what way did Horace Mann attempt to reform education?

2. Women’s Roles in the Mid-1800s
Early 1800s – limited options for women
Tradition said the place for a woman was in the home
Child-rearing (raising kids)
Housework
Cult of domesticity – the traditional view that a women’s proper place was in the home

3. Women’s Roles in the Mid-1800s
By 1850, 1 in 10 women worked outside the home for a wage
Less than ½ the pay men received for the same work
Women were taxpayers but could not vote or sit on a jury.
When a woman married, her property and money became her husband’s.
Women were expected to raise children, but were not granted guardianship rights over children.

4. Women in Reform Movements
Despite restrictions, women were active in the reform movements in the 1800s.
Inspired by the 2nd Great Awakening
Often shut out of meetings with male reformers  started their own societies and movements
Women were active in the following reform movements:
Abolition – fighting to end slavery
Temperance – outlawing alcohol
Education – equal for the sexes
Health – understanding the female body

5. Women and Abolition
The Grimké Sisters - the most outspoken female abolitionists
Daughters of a wealthy plantation owner
Feared for the salvation of whites because slavery was a sin
Angelina wrote An Appeal to Christian Women of the South
End the “oppressive and cruel system.”
Faced discrimination from some male abolitionists.

6. Sojourner Truth Born Isabella Baumfree Slave until age 30
Traveled (sojourned) the country to speak about abolition
Some white women didn’t support Truth because they feared people would discredit women’s rights reform and abolition if a black women publically called for it
However, her speaking skills won over audiences and support for abolition

7. Women and Education Reform
Until the 1820s, education for women was limited.
The Grimké Sisters were not only abolitionists, but active in reforming education too.
Sarah Grimké – complained that a woman was thought to be educated enough if she knew… “chemistry enough to keep the pot boiling, and geography enough to know the location of the different rooms in her house.”

8. Women and Education Reform
1821 – Emma Willard opened 1st school for girls in Troy, NY
Became a model for female schools
Did very well – despite being made fun of by men, “they will be educating cows next!”

9. Women and Education Reform
1830s
Mary Lyon established Mount Holyoke College in MA.
Oberlin College in OH admitted 4 girls – became the 1st coeducational college in the US.
Educational opportunities for African American girls would not be available until after the Civil War.

10. Women’s Rights Emerge
Female participation in various reform movements led to women wanting their own rights!
1848 – Seneca Falls Convention
Seneca Falls, NY
Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
300 women

11. Women’s Rights Emerge
Women at the Seneca Falls Convention wrote the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”
modeled after the Declaration of Independence
a list of grievances and complaints women had about their treatment in society
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal.”
Included a call for women’s suffrage