1. Chapter 14: The Age of Reform: Section 3 - The Women’s Movement 1 Women and Reform - Lucretia Mott (Quaker) who enjoyed some equality in her community. - Lectured against temperance, for peace, women’s rights, and abolition. - Helped fugitive slaves. - Organized Philly Female Anti-Slavery Society. - In London at the world antislavery convention she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton-they joined forces to work for women’s rights. The Seneca Falls Convention - Stanton, Mott, & a few other women organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY (July 1848). 200 women & 40 men attended. Modeled on the Declaration of Independence they wrote Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.

2. Chapter 14: The Age of Reform: Section Two - The Women’s Movement 2 - Called for an end to all laws that discriminated against women; demanded that all women be allowed to enter the all-male world of trades, professions, and businesses. They also backed the most controversial subject, suffrage-the right to vote. - E. Stanton was for suffrage, but delegates thought it was too radical. Frederick Douglas took E’s side and the convention included the women’s right to vote. The Movement Grows - Women’s rights movement grew quickly after Seneca Falls. Women held many conventions in the 1800s. Male and female reformers joined the movement.

3. Chapter 14: The Age of Reform: Section Two - The Women’s Movement 3 Susan B. Anthony, daughter of a Quaker abol- itionist in NY worked for women’s rights and temperance. She called for equal pay for women, college training for girls, and coeducation - the teaching of boys and girls together. She organized the first women’s temperance assoc., called the Daughters of Temperance. - Anthony met E. Stanton at a meeting in 1851 and became lifelong friends and partners as they struggled for women’s rights. They led the movement for the rest of the century. They led the fight for the right to vote. - Wyoming in 1890 led several states in awarding this right to women. - Women’s suffrage throughout the U.S. didn’t happen until 1920.

4. Chapter 14: The Age of Reform: Section Two - The Women’s Movement 4 Progress by American Women - Pioneers in women’s education called for more opportunity. Catherine Beecher, Emma Hart Willard believed women should be educated for their traditional roles in life. They also though women could be capable teachers. - Beecher’s Milwaukee College for Women began to train women. Education - Emma Willard educated herself in science and mathematics. She established the Troy Female Seminary in NY in 1821. The Seminary taught math, history, geography, and physics as well as the usual homemaking subjects.

5. Chapter 14: The Age of Reform: Section Two - The Women’s Movement 5 Marriage and Family Laws - Women made gains in the area of marriage and property laws in the 1800s. The states of NY, Penn, Indiana, Wis, Miss, and California recognized the right of women to own property after their marriage. - Some states passed laws giving women the right to guardianship of their children with their husbands. - Indiana was the first of several states that allowed women to seek divorce if they had married chronic abusers of alcohol.

6. Chapter 14: The Age of Reform: Section 3 - The Women’s Movement 6 Breaking Barriers - 1800s career choices for women: elementary teachers, medicine, ministry. - Some women succeeded in all-male pro- fessions liked Elizabeth Blackwell who had been turned down by 20 schools before being accepted by Geneva College in NY where she graduated a the head of her class. Won fame as a doctor. -Despite the gains in the 1800s, women still remained limited by social customs and ex- pectations. - In reality, these women reformers had really only begun a long struggle to achieve their goals.