1. Starter: Review Questions What did abolitionists want? What was life like under slavery? How did Southerners react to the Turner Rebellion?

2. Women and Reform Section 8-3 pp. 254 – 258

3. Women’s Roles in the Mid-1800’s Cult of Domesticity – Tradition of women’s roles being restricted to housework and child care – Women had few opportunities for work outside of the home – Only 10% worked outside of the home earning half the pay men received to do the same job. – They weren’t allowed to work in may professions, couldn’t vote nor sit on juries. – When a woman married, her property became her husband’s and in some instances they lacked guardianship right’s over their children.

4. Women Mobilize for Reform Inspired by the Second Great Awakening women in the 19 th century participated in reform movements. Women Abolitionists – Sarah and Angeline Grimke, daughters of a SC slaveholder. – 1836 Angeline Grimke published An Appeal for Christian Women in the South, it called upon women to “overthrow this horrible system of oppressive and cruelty” – Spurred women’s rights movement – Women abolitionists raised money, distributed literature, and collected signatures for petitions to congress.

5. Working For Temperance Temperance Movement – Effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol – At a meeting in 1852, Mary C. Vaughan attested the evils of alcohol. – 19 th century alcohol flowed freely in America. – Americans recognized drunkenness as a serious problem. – The American Temperance Society was founded. – 1833- temperance societies emerged in the country, held rallies, produced pamphlets, and brought a decline in the consumption of alcohol that continued until the 1860s.

6. Women Mobilize for Reform Educational Reforms – A few schools for higher learning opened. (Emma Willard, Nary Lyon, Sarah and Angelina Grimke’). – American girls had few educational avenues before the 1820s. – Schools opened in Massachusetts, NY, and Connecticut. Health Reforms – First studies of women’s health were done. Educated women began to work for health reforms. – Pushed for regular exercise, regular bathing, and less restrictive clothing – Elizabeth Blackwell in 1849 first woman to graduate from medical college, opened the NY Infirmary for Women and Children.

7. Women’s Rights Movement Emerges Seneca Falls Convention – Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott – Called for equal rights and suffrage – The women composed an agenda and a detailed statement of grievances, “Declaration of Sentiments” – Stated that all men and women were created equally – 300 women and men gathered at the Wesleyan Methodist Church for the convention.

8. Sojourner Truth A slave for thirty years, named Isabella Baumfree and later changed her name. Traveled throughout the country preaching and arguing for abolition. 1851 Women’s rights convention she was hissed at in disapproval because she supported abolition. She urged men to grant women their rights, she won applause with this speech. Memoirs published in 1850, “The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”.

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-HfiryNoXY