Transcript 12.3 A Call for Women’s Rights - Alliance College

14.2 A Call for Women’s Rights
Main Idea
Women who were
involved in
abolition and other
reform movements
began to speak out
about the status of
women.
Why It Matters Now
Women reformers
of the time inspired
20th Century
reformers.
Standards
8.6.6 Examine the women’s
suffrage movement (e.g.,
biographies, writing, and
speeches of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Margaret Fuller,
Lucretia Mott, and Susan B.
Anthony.
Daily Guided Questions
1. What were the goals of the
women’s rights movement?
Quick Write (5 min)
• A man in the mid-1800’s said about women’s
place in society, “Hers is the domestic altar; there
she ministers and commands…; let her not seek
madly to descend from this eminence to mix with
the strife and ambition of cares of government; the
field of politics is not her appropriate arena.”
• What is this person saying about a women’s place
in society? About her say in government? Do you
agree or disagree if you lived back then?
• You have five minutes to write as much as you
can, but you must write more than ten sentences.
The Struggle Begins (pg. 301)
1.In 1820, what could women
not do?
2.Who was Sojourner Truth and
what did she do?
3.Who was Lucretia Mott and
what did she do?
Seneca Falls Convention (pg. 302)
1.Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Lucretia Mott were excluded
from an anti-slavery
convention. They had their
own convention to discuss
what?
Declaration of Sentiments (pg. 302)
1.The Declaration of Sentiments
was modeled after what
famous American document?
2.What did the Declaration of
Sentiments say and what did
it demand?
Call for Suffrage (p. 302)
1.What is women’s suffrage?
2.What was the women’s rights
movement?
Political Victories (pg. 303)
1. What was the name of the
organization that Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
started in 1869?
2. What were some of their
victories?
Education for Women (pg. 303)
1. In 1821, Emma Willard found which
school which served as a model for
girl schools everywhere?
2. Mary Lyon opened which school in
1837, basically a college and what
subjects did they teach there?
New Careers (pg. 304)
• Margaret Fuller was a journalist, scholar,
and literary critic.
- Wrote Women in the Nineteenth Century
• Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman
to graduate from an American medical
school, January 1849.
• Maria Mitchell an astronomer, was the
first professor hired at Vassar College.
Primary Source pg. 630
• Read the primary source:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Declaration of Sentiments,
textbook pg. 630.
• Read everything on the page and
answer the three questions.
Study Guide pg. 134
• Copy and complete the
study guide on pg. 134.
Use your notes or textbook
pg. 301-304 to complete it.
14.3 American Literature and
Arts
Main Idea
Inspired by nature
and democratic
ideals, writers, and
artists produced
some of America’s
greatest works.
Why It Matters Now
19th century writers
such as Hawthrone
and Thoreau laid the
foundation for
American literature.
Standard
• 8.4.4 Discuss daily life, including
traditions in art, music, and
literature, of early life of national
America (e.g. through writings by
Washington Irving, James
Fenimore Cooper).
Daily Guided Questions
1. How are transcendentalism
and individualism related?
2. How did the new literature
celebrate American culture
and society?
Dev. Of American Culture
• Modeled after European styles.
• By mid-1800’s Amer. writers and
artists reflected Amer. optimism
and energy
-Uniquely Amer. themes of people
and nature
Washington Irving
• Stories based
on New York’s
Dutch history.
-Rip Van Winkle
-The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper
• Stories about
frontiersman and
Native Americans.
-Last of the
Mohicans
-Deerslayer
-Natty Bumppo
Romanticism
• Placed a focus on nature, emotions, and
imagination.
• Transcendentalism
-explored the relationship between
humans and nature through emotions, not
reason.
-live simply, understanding of beauty,
goodness, and truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Stressed
Individualism
• Self-reliance
• Character
• Inner light
-Given by God
Henry David Thoreau
• People must judge right
and wrong for
themselves.
• Encouraged civil
disobedience
-“If a man does not keep
pace with his companion,
perhaps it is because he
hears [the beat of] a
different drummer”
Herman Melville
• Introduced
psychological
themes and
extreme
emotions.
• “Moby Dick”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Descended from Puritans.
• Explored the dark side of the
mind.
• The Scarlet Letter
-sin, guilt, and adultery
Louisa May Alcott
• Wrote about
strong women
heroines.
• Believable and
imperfect
• Little Women
-takes place during
the Civil War
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Favorite poet of the 1850’s whose
main theme was America’s past
history.
• “Paul Revere’s Ride” & The Song of
Hiawatha
Walt Whitman
• Poetry rejected
formal rules.
-Democratic
American spirit.
- “Leaves of Grass”
John Greenleaf Whittier &
Francis Watkins Harper
• Poems
condemned
evils of
slavery
Hudson River School
• Artists expressed beauty, power of nature
(landscapes), or everyday life.
George Caleb Bingham
George Catlin
Music
• European roots and tunes.
• Uniquely American, “Yankee Doodle”
-Sung by laborers and sailors.
-Spirituals sung by slaves.
• Stephen Foster
-Wrote over 200 songs.
- “Camptown Races” and “Oh Susanna”
Primary Source & Questions pg. 631
• Read the Primary Source:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, SelfReliance, textbook pg. 631.
• Read everything on the page
and answer the questions at
the bottom.
Study Guide pg. 137
• Turn to the Study Guide, page
137. Using textbook pages
305-309, fill out the study
guide.
• Write out the whole study
guide.
Daily Guided Questions
1.What were the goals of the women’s
rights movement? (pg. 303)
2.How are transcendentalism and
individualism related? (pg. 306)
3.How did the new literature celebrate
American culture and society? (pg.
305-309)
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