1. Early 19c Women Property Single  Married 

2. Women Educators Troy, NY Female Seminary Curriculum: math, physics, history, geography Train female teachers Emma Willard (1787-1870) Mary Lyons (1797-1849) 1837 Mt. Holyoke (College) first college for women Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) 1831 Opened school for girls 1834 Opened school for African- American girls

3. “ ” Concept “ ” A woman’s “sphere” was in the home (it was a refuge from the cruel world outside) Her role was to “civilize” her husband and family An 1830s MA minister: The power of woman is her dependence. A woman who gives up that dependence on man to become a reformer yields the power God has given her for her protection, and her character becomes unnatural!

4. Cult of Domesticity = The inspired women to improve society Angelina GrimkéSarah Grimké Southern Abolitionists Ran a school for females Lucy Stone American Women’s Suffrage Assoc. Edited Woman’s Journal

5. Women’s Rights 1840  split in the abolitionist movement over women’s role in it London  World Anti-Slavery Convention female delegates denied right to attend convention Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1848 

6. Seneca Falls Declaration

7. What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own Way!