1. Women’s Rights Reformers

2. Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams
Abigail Adams
Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams
She wrote letters to her husband while he was away during the American Revolution
Her most famous letter was “Remember the Ladies”
She urged him to give women equal status when forming the new government
She advocated for public education for girls.

3. She worked in the abolitionist and temperance movements
Susan B. Anthony
She worked in the abolitionist and temperance movements
She dedicated her life to the women’s suffrage (the right to vote) movement.
Worked side by side with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Made speeches on women’s suffrage
She was arrested, convicted, and fined for voting in New York.
19th Amendment is often called the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” in honor of her dedication to women’s suffrage.

4. A freed slave from New York Abolitionist and women’s rights activist
Sojourner Truth
A freed slave from New York
Abolitionist and women’s rights activist
Excellent speaker and traveled the country telling people what slavery was really like
Most famous speech was “Ain’t I a Woman”
Met Abraham Lincoln

5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leader in the women’s rights movement
Planned and organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York..
Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments
Did not live to see women’s suffrage (the right to vote) in the United States.

6. Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 to July 20, 1848, was the first women's rights convention held in the United States, and as a result it's often called the birthplace of feminism. Prominent at the 1848 convention were leading reformers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.