Chapter 14 The Age of Reform (1820-1860)

Section 3 The Women’s Movement

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Rate your agreement with the following statement: Women have equal rights with men in the United States today.

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What were the effects of the women’s rights movement of the middle to late 1800s?

Women and Reform• Many women reformers

were Quakers• Lucretia MottLucretia Mott and other

Quakers had some equality in their communities

• Mott helped fugitive slaves and formed an antislavery society

• Mott met Elizabeth Cady Elizabeth Cady StantonStanton at the world antislavery convention in London

• They joined forces to work for women’s rights

The Seneca Falls Convention• July 1848• First women’s

rights convention was in Seneca Falls, New York

• 200 women and 30 men attended

• The convention issued a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

• Called for an end to laws that discriminated against women

The Seneca Falls Convention Continued• The Declaration also

demanded that women be allowed to have jobs that men had

• The most controversial issue at the convention was about suffragesuffrage (right to vote)

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted the Declaration to demand women suffrage

• The delegates thought the idea of women voting was too radical

• Stanton and Frederick Douglass argued powerfully for women’s right to vote

• After a heated vote, the convention voted to include the demand for woman suffrage

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What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?

A. Delegates called for an end to child labor.

B. Delegates passed a resolution in favor of voting rights for all African Americans.

C. Delegates demanded that women be given the right to vote.

D. Delegates petitioned the United States to add anEqual Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

Growth of the Women’s Movement• Seneca Falls paved the

way for growth of the women’s rights movement

• In the 1800s- Women held several national conventions

• Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony worked for women’s rights and temperance

• Anthony called for equal pay for women, college training for girls, and coeducation

• Anthony organized the country’s first women’s temperance association, the Daughters of Temperance

Growth of the Women’s Movement Continued• Anthony met Elizabeth

Cady Stanton at a temperance meeting in 1851

• They became partners in the struggle for women’s rights and suffrage

• They were the leaders and worked for the right to vote for women

• 1890- Wyoming gave women the right to vote, others soon followed

• Not until 1920 would women officially be given the right to vote

Education• Some women began to make

their own opportunities• They broke the barriers to

female education and helped other women do the same

• Emma Willard educated herself in subjects thought only suitable for men (math and science)

• Willard set up the Troy Female Seminary in 1821

• Mary Lyon established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837

Marriage and Family Laws• Women made some gains

in marriage and property laws in the mid to late 1800s

• NY, Penn., Indiana, Wisc., Mississippi, and California recognized the right of women to own property after their marriage

• Some states passed laws for divorced women

• Divorced women could share the guardianship of their children with their husband

• Indiana was the first to allow women to seek divorce if their husband were chronic abusers of alcohol

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Under the new marriage laws passed in Indiana, when could a woman seek divorce from her husband?

A. If he could not provide adequately for the family

B. If he abused their children

C. If they disagreed on how to raise their children

D. If he was a chronic abuser of alcohol

Breaking Barriers• In the 1800s, women had few

career choices• They could be elementary

teachers (Paid less than men)• Men dominated professions

like medicine and ministryministry• Some strong minded women

like Elizabeth BlackwellElizabeth Blackwell broke this barrier

• Blackwell became a doctor• Despite the accomplishments,

women remained limited by social customs and expectations

• Women had just begun the long struggle to achieve their goal of equality

What were the effects of the women’s rights movement of the middle to late 1800s?

-Women gained the right to vote in several states

-greater access to education

-Expanded rights within marriage in some states

-Greater public awareness of issues affecting women

Chapter 14 Section 3 Quiz

1. Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts admitted only African Americans.

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B. False

2. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the women's rights movement

after forming a friendship in 1851.

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B. False

3. Women fighting to end slavery recognized their own oppression and formed the

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B. education movement.

C. suffrage movement.

D. women's rights movement.

4. The first women's rights convention was held in

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B. New York.

C. Virginia.

D. Ohio.

5. Which was the first state to grant women the right to vote?

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B. Wyoming

C. Indiana

D. Ohio

6. The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls convention concerned

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25% 25%25%25%A. education.

B. suffrage.

C. jobs.

D. slavery.

7. The Quaker woman who gave lectures calling for temperance, peace, workers'

rights, and abolition was

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B. Elizabeth Stanton.

C. Lucy Stone.

D. Susan B. Anthony.

8. Elizabeth Blackwell made contributions in the field of

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B. medicine.

C. literature.

D. elementary education.

9. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was founded by

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B. Elizabeth Stanton.

C. Amelia Jenks Bloomer.

D. Mary Lyon.

10. The first state to allow women to divorce their husbands if they had an alcohol

problem was

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25% 25%25%25%A. New York.

B. Indiana.

C. California.

D. Mississippi.

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